Export Promotion Policies: Transaction Costs and Export Channel Choices in Egypt

Abla M. Abdel-Latif and Jeffrey B. Nugent

Abstract

Given increasing evidence of the relative importance of transaction costs in international market penetration by LDC exporters of manufactured goods, this paper attempts to identify the sources and nature of these costs and, based on the findings, to recommend policies capable of helping LDC exporters in overcoming these transaction cost-based obstacles to such exports. It does so by taking advantage of the results obtained from questionnaires addressed to samples of both producers of manufactures exports and trading intermediaries in Egypt.

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