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Economic growth with foreign savings?

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  • Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

    (Professor de economia da Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo/SP, Brasil.)

  • Yoshiaki Nakano

    (Professor de economia da Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo/SP, Brasil.)

Abstract

Highly indebted countries, particularly the Latin American ones, presented dismal economic outcomes in the 1990s’ which are the consequence of the “growth cum foreign savings strategy”, or the Second Washington Consensus. Coupled with liber- alization of international financial flows, such strategy, which did not make part of the first consensus, led the countries, in the wave of a new world wide capital flow cycle, to high current account deficits and increase in foreign debt, ignoring the sol- vency constraint and the debt threshold. In practical terms it involved overvalued currencies (low exchange rates) and high interest rates; in policy terms, the attempt to control de budget deficit while the current account deficit was ignored. The paradoxical consequence was the adoption by highly indebted countries of “exchange rate populism”, a less obvious but more dangerous form of economic populism. JEL Classification: O11; F43.

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  • Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira & Yoshiaki Nakano, 2003. "Economic growth with foreign savings?," Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Center of Political Economy, vol. 23(2), pages 163-188, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:23:y:2003:i:2:id:95793
    DOI: 10.1590/0101-31572004-0699
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    JEL classification:

    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • F43 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Economic Growth of Open Economies

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