SPECIALIZATION, SCALE ECONOMIES AND ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT

Authors
Citation
D. Canning, SPECIALIZATION, SCALE ECONOMIES AND ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT, Economics letters, 52(1), 1996, pp. 95-100
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Economics
Journal title
ISSN journal
01651765
Volume
52
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
95 - 100
Database
ISI
SICI code
0165-1765(1996)52:1<95:SSEAE>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
Manufacturing plants tend to be bigger in large countries, but smaller in countries with high income per capita or strong financial markets. Specialization, with small plants linked through markets or industria l groups, may be a more important source of economic development than scale economies in large plants.