后发优势——后发国家对外贸易的新解释

Hypothesis of late-developing advantage:a new explanation to international trade

比较优势一直是国际贸易的理论基础 ,但对于众多的后发国家而言 ,比较优势理论有诸多不适用之处 ,完全依照比较优势理论作为指导而获得经济与贸易发展的后发国家并不多见。后发优势强调学习 ,依靠学习效应来降低发展的成本和缩短发展的时间。把后发优势假说应用于后发国家的对外贸易 ,可以对现有的贸易理论起到丰富和补充的作用 ,弥补比较优势理论的缺陷 。

Comparative advantage has been the theoretic foundation to international trade for many years. But to most of late-developing countries, theory of comparative advantage is inapplicability in much of situation. Hypothesis of late-developing advantage focused on learning. By using Hypothesis of late-developing advantage, late-developing countries' cost of development can be lowed down and period of development will be shorted. Hypothesis of late-developing advantage's application will have big help to the development of international trade theory