Infrastructure Aid, Deindustrialization, and Welfare

July 1, 2005

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Eun K Choi. Infrastructure Aid, Deindustrialization, and Welfare, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This paper investigates the deindustrialization and welfare effects of infrastructure aid in developing countries. In the short run, cost-saving infrastructure aid in the export sector increases the domestic wage rate, whereas the same aid in the import sector lowers it. The cost of nontraded goods rises whether the export or the import sector receives infrastructure aid. Infrastructure aid in the nontraded sector has no effect on domestic factor prices. Laborsaving infrastructure aid causes an expansion of the export sector, while capital-saving infrastructure aid results in a Dutch disease effect in the export sector. If aid is below the optimal level, infrastructure aid increases consumer income and welfare.

Subject: Dutch disease, Exports, Imports, Income, Infrastructure

Keywords: Currency appreciation, Interest rate, WP

Publication Details

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24
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Working Paper No. 2005/150
Stock No:

WPIEA2005150
ISBN:

9781451861693
ISSN:

1018-5941

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