Comparative Advantage and Development Policy

Hollis B. Chenery

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Abstract: Abstract In the great revival of interest in economic development that has marked the past decade, attention has centered on two main questions: first, what determines the over-all rate of economic advance?; second, what is the optimal allocation of given resources to promote growth? Analysis of the growth rate has relied mainly on the Keynesian tools and has produced a multiplicity of aggregate growth models. The second question, however, reopens more ancient economic issues, and their analysis must start from the classical and neo-classical solutions. Only very recently have the two types of discussion tended to come together in the more comprehensive framework of general equilibrium analysis.

Keywords: Development Policy; Foreign Exchange; Comparative Advantage; Shadow Price; Growth Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1965
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-00460-7_2

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