Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/105584 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
School of Economics Discussion Papers No. 1312
Publisher: 
University of Kent, School of Economics, Canterbury
Abstract: 
Kaldor’s first law of growth posits a positive causal relation between the growth of manufacturing output and the growth of GDP due to static and dynamic returns to scale in manufacturing and rising productivity outside the manufacturing sector as resources are transferred from diminishing returns activities. In an open economy, however, the Kaldor first law of growth is open to another interpretation because it is apparent across countries that there is a close association between manufacturing output growth and export growth, and between export growth and GDP growth. Results are presented for 89 developing countries over the period 1990-2011, also distinguishing between low income, lower-middle income and upper-middle income countries, and between the continents of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Subjects: 
Kaldor’s growth laws
manufacturing growth
export growth
GDP growth
JEL: 
C21
E12
F43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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