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Immiserizing Growth as Seen by Bhagwati, Samuelson, and Others

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  • Frederic L. Pryor

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Immiserizing growth is a long-term phenomenon that occurs when the gain in a country's social welfare arising from economic growth is more than offset by the loss in such welfare associated with an adverse shift in the terms of trade. In one case explored many years ago by Jagdish Bhagwati, immiserizing growth occurs in a developing nation that has started economic growth but faces unfavorable international demand conditions as it increases its traditional exports. In another case explored recently by Paul A. Samuelson, immiserizing growth occurs for the growing industrialized country when its trade partner follows a policy of import substituting growth and, as a result, shifts the terms of trade against the exporting country. Still others have specified a variety of different cases of immiserizing growth. The author provides a simple graphical method to analyze these situations and then presents data showing that immiserizing growth is a relatively rare phenomenon.

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  • Frederic L. Pryor, 2007. "Immiserizing Growth as Seen by Bhagwati, Samuelson, and Others," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(2), pages 208-214, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jeduce:v:38:y:2007:i:2:p:208-214
    DOI: 10.3200/JECE.38.2.208-214
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    1. Syed Tehseen Jawaid & Mariya Ahmad Qureshi & Samra Ali, 2021. "Does immiserizing growth exist? Evidence from world’s top trading nations," Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 14(2), pages 124-148, January.
    2. Serge Svizzero, 2015. "Trade, immiserising growth and the long-term neolithisation process of the Pitted Ware Culture," Post-Print hal-02148984, HAL.
    3. Bilge Erten, 2010. "Industrial Upgrading and Export Diversification: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Policies in Turkey and Malaysia," Working Papers id:2778, eSocialSciences.
    4. Ghosh, Dilip K. & Arize, Augustine C. & Zaher, Angie, 2017. "Asymmetric model of neoclassical trade and optimum tax-subsidy-tariff policy," The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Elsevier, vol. 16(C), pages 87-100.

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