A Formal Assessment of New-Developmentalist Theory and Policy

Ariel Dvoskin () and German Feldman

Department of Economics University of Siena from Department of Economics, University of Siena

Abstract: We develop a formal framework that endogeneizes the productive structure of a small open peripheral economy as the outcome of a problem of technical choices. We subsequently examine the main theoretical theses and policy prescriptions of the NewDevelopmentalist approach to economic development. We argue that: a) not only does the pattern of specialization depend on technical conditions, but also on income distribution; b) in an economy without rents, the level of the money-wage nominal-exchange-rate ratio is univocally determined once the rate of profits is known, and shows an inverse relationship with it; c) if differential rents are considered, the level of the rate of profits can be set independently of the money-wage exchange-rate ratio; d) the level of the exchange rate that ensures normal profitability of the primary sector need not coincide with the currentaccount equilibrium rate; e) the effective exchange rate need not gravitate around any of these two former levels, which must be rather seen as minimum thresholds of the effective rate; e) the unpleasant distributive consequences of exchange-rate depreciation can be partially avoided by means of export duties that do not raise primary-commodities production costs

Keywords: DISTRIBUTIVE; CONFLICT; -; DUTCH; DISEASE; -; EXCHANGE; RATE; POLICY; -; NEW-DEVELOPMENTALISM; –; PATTERN; OF; SPECIALIZATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B22 E11 F43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-12
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