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| Title: | | Economic development strategy, openness and rural poverty: A framework and China's experiences  |
| Authors: | | Lin, Justin Yifu Liu, Peilin |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Research Paper, UNU-WIDER, United Nations University (UNU) 2006/43 |
| Abstract: | | This paper argues that both openness and poverty in a country are endogenously determined by the country’s long-term economic development strategy. Development strategies can be broadly divided into two mutually exclusive groups: (i) the comparative advantage-defying (CAD) strategy, which attempts to encourage firms to deviate from the economy’s existing comparative advantages in their entry into an industry or choice of technology; and (ii) the comparative advantage-following (CAF) strategy, which attempts to facilitate the firms’ entry into an industry or choice of technology according to the economy’s existing comparative advantages. To carry out a CAD strategy, many governments of LDCs subsidize the firms in priority sectors by distorting capital prices, foreign exchange, and other inputs; and use administrative methods to allocate price-distorted inputs to the firms. The functions of market will be suppressed. Rent-seeking will be widespread. As a result, economic performance will be poor and the income distribution issue will worsen. Foreign trade will also be retarded. Only if governments of less-developed countries make following their economy’s comparative advantage the basic principle for promoting the economy’s industrial development, will the economy have an open and well functioning market, maintain a high rate of capital accumulation, upgrade its endowment structure quickly, and see a more equitable distribution of income and fewer poor. |
| Subjects: | | economic development strategy income distribution globalization poverty |
| JEL: | | O14 O20 O33 N65 |
| ISBN: | | 9291908118 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Research Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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