Agricultural Productivity, Comparative Advantage, and Economic Growth
The role of agricultural productivity in economic development is addressed in a two-sector model of endogenous growth in which a) preferences are non-homothetic and income elasticity of demand for the agricultural good is less than unitary, and b) the engine of growth is learning-by-doing in the manufacturing sector. For the closed economy case, the model predicts a positive link between agricultural productivity and economic growth, while, for the small open economy case, it predicts a negative link. This suggests that the openness of an economy should be an important factor when planning dev... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 1990 |
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Evanston
IL: Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science |
| Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / F43 / O11 / O41 / Agricultural Revolution / Dutch Disease / Endogenous Growth / Engel's Law / Industrail Revolution / Learning-by-doing / Regional Divergence |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29049137 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/221293 |
The role of agricultural productivity in economic development is addressed in a two-sector model of endogenous growth in which a) preferences are non-homothetic and income elasticity of demand for the agricultural good is less than unitary, and b) the engine of growth is learning-by-doing in the manufacturing sector. For the closed economy case, the model predicts a positive link between agricultural productivity and economic growth, while, for the small open economy case, it predicts a negative link. This suggests that the openness of an economy should be an important factor when planning development strategy and predicting growth performance.