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Economic Transformation, Population Growth, and the Long-Run World Income Distribution

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  • Marcos Chamon
  • Michael Kremer

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This paper considers the long-run evolution of the world economy in a model where countries' opportunities to develop depend on their trade with advanced economies. As developing countries become advanced, they further improve trade opportunities for the remaining developing countries. Whether or not the world economy converges to widespread prosperity depends on the population growth differential between developing and advanced economies, the rate at which countries develop, and potentially on initial conditions. A calibration using historical data suggests that the long-run prospects for lagging developing regions, such as Africa, likely hinge on the sufficiently rapid development of China and India.

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Paper provided by International Monetary Fund in its series IMF Working Papers with number 06/21.

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Date of creation: 01 Jan 2006
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Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:06/21

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