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REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 381-404Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/rode.12716
Keywords
commodity revenues; dual economy; wage goods; capital-intensive manufacturing; altruistic mode; productive mode; bargaining mode
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This study examines the modernization perspectives of commodity-exporting countries using the Kaldorian framework and Lewis's dualistic economy model. Three scenarios for resource revenue management are scrutinized, with the altruistic mode identified as potentially slowing down the economic modernization process.
The present inquiry focuses on the modernization perspectives of the commodity-exporting countries through the lens of development economics. To this end, the study adopts the Kaldorian framework to address the modernization effects, epitomized in the absorption of surplus labor. To trace the process of economic modernization, the study augments Lewis's dualistic economy model by the extractive sector. Three different scenarios for the management of resource revenues are scrutinized. An altruistic mode, which implies a pure redistribution of the revenues among the poor swaths of the population, protracts the process of economic modernization, requires a greater amount of capital stock, and harbors a greater risk of a poverty trap. This effect is less pronounced if the modern sector is more capital-intensive. A productive mode, which elicits full reinvestment of the commodity revenues, in contrast, accelerates the pace of economic modernization. Further, predicated on the scrutiny of a more realistic scenario, a bargaining mode, the study derives the condition for a net positive (or negative) modernization effect. The study identifies technical progress alongside capital accumulation as a further important source of economic modernization.
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