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Unbalanced growth
Author(s) -
Krishna Kala,
Pérez César A.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.0008-4085.2005.00304.x
Subject(s) - subsidy , industrialisation , economics , welfare , sequence (biology) , growth model , microeconomics , market economy , chemistry , biochemistry
. 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 sequence will raise welfare if the future is not discounted too strongly.