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Unbalanced Growth

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  • Kala Krishna
  • Cesar A. Perez

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We study a model designed to understand the concept of unbalanced growth. We define leading sectors to be those that raise the profits from industrialization for other sectors the most. We identify the leading sectors and show that subsidizing them in sequences will raise welfare if the future is not discounted too strongly.

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Date of creation: Nov 2004
Publication status: published as Krishna, Kala and Cesar A. Perez. "Unbalanced Growth," Canadian Journal of Economics, 2005, v38(3,Aug), 832-851.
Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:10899
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  • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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  • D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General

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  1. Kiminori Matsuyama, 1995. "Complementarities and Cumulative Processes in Models of Monopolistic Competition," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 33(2), pages 701-729, June.
  2. Kala Krishna & César Pérez, 2005. "Unbalanced growth," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 38(3), pages 832-851, August.
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  1. Kala Krishna & César Pérez, 2005. "Unbalanced growth," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 38(3), pages 832-851, August.
  2. Mehmet Demiral, 2016. "Has EU Accession Caused Structural Change in New Entrants? Intersectoral Linkage Analyses on Bulgaria and Romania," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 6(2), pages 671-681.

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