Structural change, balance-of-payments constraint, and economic growth: evidence from the multisectoral Thirlwall's law
This paper contributes to the literature on balance-of-paymentsconstrained growth by investigating how structural change, identified with changes in the sectoral composition of exports and imports, affects the external constraint. We test both the original and a multisectoral version of Thirlwall's law for a sample of Latin American and Asian countries. The original Thirlwall's law is found to hold for all sample countries except South Korea, whereas the multisectoral analogue holds for all of them. As the sectoral composition of exports and imports is found to matter for growth, we analyze the evolution of each country's weighted trade income elasticities.
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Volume (Year): 33 (2010)
Issue (Month): 1 (October)
Pages: 169-204
| Handle: | RePEc:mes:postke:v:33:y:2010:i:1:p:169-204 |
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