Factor Reallocation and Growth in Developing Countries

June 1, 2000

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Helene Poirson. Factor Reallocation and Growth in Developing Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed November 8, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines the extent to which developing countries benefit from intersectoral factor transfers by specifying the impact and determinants of sectoral changes and of the degree of dualism (or allocation inefficiency) in a dual economy model. Conditions under which factor reallocation is growth-enhancing are derived. An empirical error-correction equation is estimated for 30 developing countries during 1965-80. Results suggest that labor reallocation effects are especially important in countries with high rates of investment (and thus high rates of labor transfer) and/or at low levels of development (and thus high degrees of dualism).

Subject: Capital productivity, Expenditure, Human capital, Labor, Labor productivity, Production, Public expenditure review

Keywords: Capital productivity, Dualism, East Asia, Factor productivity, Factor reallocation, GDP growth, Growth, Human capital, Labor coefficient, Labor productivity, Labor productivity, Labor reallocation, Public expenditure review, Reallocation effect, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

29
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2000/094
Stock No:

WPIEA0942000
ISBN:

9781451851717
ISSN:

1018-5941

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