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Development
A Comparative Analysis
OUTLINE
Linear-stages theory
Wages, Profits,
Rents
Inflow
Consumption
Expenditure
Households
Inflow
Ray, Debraj
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Outflow
Savings
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Beyond AK model
Endogeneity of savings
Savings are influenced by percapita incomes and
distribution of income in an economy
Both of these are influenced by economic growth
Economic growth mirrors the movement of savings
with income
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Structural-Change Models
Structural-change theory focuses on the
mechanism by which underdeveloped
economies transform their domestic
economic structures from traditional to
an industrial economy
Representative examples of this strand
of thought are
The Lewis theory of development
Chenerys patterns of development
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Domestic constraints
International constraints
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divergences between rich and poor nations and rich and poor peoples
at all levels.
The concept embraces four key arguments:
1. Superior and inferior conditions can coexist in a given space at
given time
2. The coexistence is chronic and not transitional
3. The degrees of the conditions have an inherent tendency to increase
4. Superior conditions serve to develop under development
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The Neoclassical
Counterrevolution: Market
Neoclassical counterrevolution in the 1980s called for freer markets, and the
Fundamentalism
dismantling of public
ownership, and government regulations
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Application: Do Economies
Converge?
Unconditional convergence occurs