Contemporary Models of Development and Underdevelopment

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Contemporary Models of Development and Underdevelopment Chapter 4 Contemporary Models of Development and Underdevelopment

4.1 Underdevelopment as a Coordination Failure A newer school of thought on problems of economic development Coordination failures occur when agents’ inability to coordinate their actions leads to an outcome that makes all agents worse off. This can occur when actions are complementary, i.e., Actions taken by one agent reinforces incentives for others to take similar actions

4.2 Multiple Equilibria: A Diagrammatic Approach Often, these models can be diagrammed by graphing an S-shaped function and the 45º line Equilibria are Stable: function crosses the 45º line from above Unstable: function crosses the 45º line from below

Figure 4.1 Multiple Equilibria

4.3 Starting Economic Development: The Big Push Sometimes market failures lead to a need for public policy intervention The Big Push: A Graphical Model, 6 assumptions One factor of production Two sectors Same production function for each sector Consumers spend an equal amount on each good Closed economy Perfect competition with traditional firms operating, limit pricing monopolist with a modern firm operating Conditions for Multiple Equilibria A big push may also be necessary when there are: Intertemporal effects Urbanization effects Infrastructure effects Training effects

Figure 4.2 The Big Push

Why the Problem Cannot be Solved by a Super-Entrepreneur Capital market failures Cost of monitoring managers- Asymmetric Information Communication failures Limits to knowledge Lack of any empirical evidence that would suggest this is possible

In a Nutshell: Big Push Mechanisms Raising total demand Reducing fixed costs of later entrants Redistributing demand to later periods when other industrializing firms sell Shifting demand toward manufacturing goods (usually produced in urban areas) Help defray costs of essential infrastructure (a similar mechanism can hold when there are costs of training, and other shared intermediate inputs)

4.4 Further Problems of Multiple Equilibria Inefficient Advantages of Incumbency Behavior and Norms Linkages Inequality, Multiple Equilibria, and Growth

4.5 Michael Kremer’s O-Ring Theory of Economic Development The O-Ring Model Production is modeled with strong complementarities among inputs Positive assortative matching in production Implications of strong complementarities for economic development and the distribution of income across countries

4.6 Economic Development as Self-Discovery Hausmann and Rodrik: A Problem of Information Not enough to say developing countries should produce “labor intensive products,” because there are thousands of them Industrial policy may help to identify true direct and indirect domestic costs of potential products to specialize in, by: Encouraging exploration in first stage Encouraging movement out of inefficient sectors and into more efficient sectors in the second stage

4.6 Economic Development as Self-Discovery Three building blocks of the theory; and case examples of their reasonableness in practice: Uncertainty about products can produce efficiently (evidence: India’s success in information technology was unexpected; reasons for Bangladesh’s efficiency in hats vs Pakistan’s in bedsheets is not clear) Need for local adaptation (evidence: seen in cases such as shipbuilding in South Korea) Imitation can be rapid (e.g. the spread of cut flower exporting in Colombia)

4.7 The Hausmann-Rodrik-Velasco Growth Diagnostics Framework Focus on a country’s most binding constraints on economic growth No “one size fits all” in development policy Requires careful research to determine the most likely binding constraint

Figure 4.3 Hausmann-Rodrik-Velasco Growth Diagnostics Decision Tree

Concepts for Review Agency costs Asymmetric information Big push Complementarity Congestion Coordination failure Deep intervention Economic agent Growth diagnostics Information externality Linkage Middle-income trap Multiple equilibria O-ring model O-ring production function Pareto improvement Pecuniary externalities Poverty trap Prisoners’ dilemma

Concepts for Review (cont’d) Social returns Technological externality Underdevelopment trap Where-to-meet dilemma