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Assumptions
Endogenous Increasing marginal returns on capital investments Increasing returns to scale in aggregate production Focus on externalities in determining the rate of return on investments Increasing returns are a source of growth, apart from technology, public and private investments in human capital, external economies and productivity improvements. Y=AK Since there are no diminishing returns to capital, possibility exists that investments in physical and human capital can generate external economies and productivity that are enough to offset diminishing returns. The net result is sustained long term growth. No tendency for convergence. A temporary or prolonged recession in one country can lead to a permanent increase in the income gap between itself and wealthier countries International flow of capital accentuates wealth disparity between developed and developing countries. Though return on investment in developing country may be high, complementary investments in human capital, infrastructure, or R&D are low. Explain technological change as an endogenous outcome of
Source of growth
Convergence
Proposes convergence
Int flow of capital because of higher returns in developing countries. This leads to convergence
Technological change
public and private investments in human capital and knowledge intensive industries.
Similarity Both emphasise the importance of savings and human capital investments for achieving rapid growht
Models of structural change Lewiss two sector model Chenerys patterns of development
Convergence in Solows model. Assess. <Categorise models according to their emphasis and chronology> Compare Rostows model with the Harrod-Domar model of growth.
Hypotheses of Underdevelopment
1. Geographic determinism
Basic needs approach and Development Development programs following the basic needs approach do not invest in economically productive activities that will help a society carry its own weight in the future, rather it focuses on allowing the society to consume just enough to rise above the poverty line and meet its basic needs. These programs focus more on subsistence than fairness Read the PDF
Health Index: measured through Life expectancy at birth o Min value: 20 o Max value: 83.2 o HI = (Actual Min)/(Max-Min) Education index is the geometric mean of o Mean years of schooling: estimated based on duration of schooling at each level of education o Expected years of schooling: estimated based on enrolment by age at all levels of education and population of official school age for each level of education Living Standards: measured through Gross National Income per Capita o Min: $163 (PPP) o Max: $108,211 (PPP) o Logarithm of income is used to reflect the diminishing importance of income with increasing GNI. Now natural logarithm is used. Earlier logarithm with the base of 10 was used. Geometric mean of the above three is taken to get HDI.
Disaggregated HDI
One way the use of the human development index has been improved is through disaggregation.
Disaggregated HDIs are arrived at by using the data for the HDI components pertaining to each of the separate groups; treating each group as if it was a separate country. Such groups may be defined relative to income, geographical or administrative regions, urban/rural residence, gender and ethnicity.
The hybrid HDI is a different version of the HDI that applies the same aggregation formula as the new HDI, but to a set of indicators used in the previous HDI life expectancy, adult literacy, gross enrolment ratio and GDP per capita. It is used in the 2010 Report for analysis of historical HDI trends since 1970 because there is much more data available from past decades for those indicators. The hybrid HDI uses annual data from 1970 to 2010 for 135 countries.