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D-3. Theories of DVT & Their Evolution Chap 3-Students
D-3. Theories of DVT & Their Evolution Chap 3-Students
Chapter 3,
Department of Economics, College of Business
and Economics, Addis Ababa University (AAU),
Ethiopia
Assignment II.
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c
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Then,
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Harrod-Domar Model
• How much additional output can be generated
from an additional unit of investment?
• This can be measured by the inverse of the
capital-output ratio (c=k/y). So the inverse will
be 1/c=y/k, which is output-investment ratio, the
volume of output generated per unit investment.
• So multiplying the rate of new investment s=1/Y,
by its productivity, 1/c, will give the rate by
which national income or GNP will increase.
40000
35620
35000 34100 34100
us-dollar ppp
30000
27080
24430
25000 23550
US Dollars
20000 18530
15000 12990
9340
10000
7300
7.00%
5.72% 5.89%
6.00%
5.40%
5.21%
4.99%
5.00%
4.49%
4.06% 4.19%
3.86%
4.00%
3.00%
2.00%
1.00%
0.00%
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Start/Applications/Economics/ World Development Indicators 2002
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Growth ate of Per Capita Income In Growth Disaster
Countries
Growth Disasters, Average Annual Growth Rate 1960-2000
Venezuela, RB
Sierra Leone
Madagascar
Nicaragua
Senegal
CAFRP
Zambia
Ghana
Chad
Niger
Haiti
0.00%
-0.20%
-0.21% -0.24%
-0.40% -0.30%
-0.60%
-0.80% -0.75%-0.71%
-0.79%
-1.00%
-1.00% -1.04%
-1.20% -1.11%
-1.40% -1.26%
-1.60%
-1.61%
-1.80%
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Simplified Growth Model
1. it is a simple and abstract representation of a complex
economy
2. Simplifying assumptions include:
Single good produced with a constant technology.
No government or international trade.
All factors of production are fully employed.
Labor force grows at constant rate
Neoclassical (Cobb-Douglas) aggregate production function with constant
returns to scale
Representative agent: representative household & firm
Households are assumed to save a constant exogenous fraction s ∈ (0,
1) of their disposable income.
Technology is free: it is publicly available as a non-excludable, non-rival
good. So, A(t) is freely available to all potential firms in the economy
and firms do not have to pay for making use of this technology.
Periphery
“The synchronised
application of capital to a
wide range of different
industries”
- Nafziger (1990, p. 85)
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The demand side - Complimentarity of Industries
The inducement to invest is limited by the size of the
market
In a non-surplus producing agricultural economy
there is no initial demand for manufactured goods
Whilst Say’s Law suggests that once workers are
transferred to an individual industry (say shoe
production) they will generate their own demand by
consuming shoes, Rosenstein-Rodan noted that they
will not spend their entire wages on shoes alone.
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Being Critical one, What are the Determinants
of Market Size?
• Hirschman
challenged the
theory of balanced
growth
• He embraced the
theory of
‘unbalanced
Alfred Hirschman growth’
1915 -
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Unbalanced Growth
1. Pioneer is a German political economist, Albert
Hirschman
2. Major shortage is investment by entrepreneurs &
risk takers.
3. So need for development strategy to spur
investment decisions.
4. Overall growth is faster when it is unbalanced. So
unbalanced growth as a strategy of development
of LDCs.
5. Development should concentrate on certain
sectors. He argued that there are insufficient
resources available in developing countries to
allow for a ‘big push’
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Unbalanced Growth
1. Creating imbalances in the system is the best strategy
for growth.
a. Premise: the little that is available must be used
efficiently.
b. Owing to the lack of availability of resources in the
LDCs, it is not possible to invest in all, so selective
investment is a must.
c. Need to consider how investment affects
profitability of other sectors. Select areas of
intervention on the basis of linkages of investment
areas to other sectors in the economy.
Consider both backward to sales of inputs &
forward linkages effects