This document summarizes the Mundell-Fleming model, which analyzes how fiscal, monetary, and trade policies affect aggregate demand in a small open economy. The model shows that under floating exchange rates, fiscal policy has no effect on output, while monetary policy shifts demand between domestic and foreign goods. Under fixed exchange rates, fiscal policy impacts output while monetary policy does not. Trade restrictions can boost domestic output under fixed but not floating rates. The document also discusses interest rate differentials and currency crises using Mexico's 1994 peso crisis as a case study.
The document discusses the Mundell-Fleming model of the open economy and exchange rate regimes. It provides an overview of the key assumptions and components of the Mundell-Fleming model, including the IS* and LM* curves. It then analyzes the effects of fiscal policy, monetary policy, and trade policy under both floating and fixed exchange rate systems. The document concludes with two case studies on financial crises in Mexico and Southeast Asia that illustrate the model.
20110923 mankiw economics chap22 frontiers of microeconomicsFED事務局
1. The document discusses three topics in microeconomics: asymmetric information, political economy, and behavioral economics.
2. Asymmetric information refers to situations where one party has more or better information than the other, which can lead to problems like moral hazard or adverse selection. It discusses some of the main thinkers in this field like Stiglitz, Akerlof, and Spence.
3. Political economy examines government using analytic methods and discusses ideas like voting paradoxes, Arrow's impossibility theorem, and the median voter theory.
4. Behavioral economics shows that people are not perfectly rational and examines ideas like overconfidence, fairness, and inconsistency over time. It discusses thinkers like
The document summarizes Kuznets' hypothesis that income inequality within countries initially rises and then falls with economic development. It provides evidence from Kuznets' 1955 study showing higher inequality in less developed countries (LDCs) like India compared to developed countries (DCs) like the UK and US. Kuznets attributed the inverted-U shape relationship between development and inequality to structural changes in early industrialization benefiting high-income groups before policies and social changes in later stages reduced the gap. The document also discusses measures of inequality like the Gini coefficient and debates around Kuznets' hypothesis.
This document provides an overview of aggregate supply and the short-run tradeoff between inflation and unemployment known as the Phillips curve. It discusses three models of aggregate supply - the sticky-wage model, imperfect-information model, and sticky-price model - and how they each imply a positive relationship between output and the price level in the short run. The Phillips curve relationship is then derived from the aggregate supply relationship. The document also discusses concepts like adaptive expectations, inflation inertia, cost-push vs demand-pull inflation, and the sacrifice ratio.
The New Theory of Economic Growth: Endogenous Growth Modelinventionjournals
The document summarizes the key aspects of the new endogenous growth theory, including models proposed by Arrow, Romer, and Lucas. Arrow's "learning by doing" model endogenizes economic growth by treating knowledge as a side product of investment. Romer's 1990 model identifies a research sector that produces new ideas. Lucas' model assumes investment in education produces human capital, which spills over to increase productivity. While offering improvements over exogenous growth theory, the new endogenous growth theory has also received some criticisms around its assumptions and ability to explain differences in growth between countries.
The Lewis dual sector model of development describes an economy transitioning from subsistence agriculture to a more modern, urbanized structure. It consists of two sectors: a traditional subsistence sector with zero marginal productivity of labor, providing surplus labor; and a modern industrial sector where labor is transferred from the traditional sector, expanding output and employment through reinvested profits. However, the model is criticized for assuming profits are always reinvested when they could enable labor-saving investments or capital flight, and for assuming perfect competition in labor markets and unlimited surplus labor, which is inconsistent with historical evidence from developing countries.
types of inflation and inflationary and deflationary gap ayazmashori
This document discusses different types of inflation including definitions of inflation, deflation, disinflation, and their causes. It defines inflation as a sustained increase in prices over time. Deflation is a decrease in prices, while disinflation is a slowdown in the rate of inflation. The types of inflation include hyperinflation (over 100% per year), galloping inflation (10-100%), and creeping inflation (<10%). Causes of inflation are discussed as either demand-pull inflation from too much spending, or cost-push inflation from increased costs of production. Inflationary gaps occur when current GDP is higher than potential GDP at full employment, while deflationary gaps are when demand is below full employment supply
This document summarizes the Mundell-Fleming model, which analyzes how fiscal, monetary, and trade policies affect aggregate demand in a small open economy. The model shows that under floating exchange rates, fiscal policy has no effect on output, while monetary policy shifts demand between domestic and foreign goods. Under fixed exchange rates, fiscal policy impacts output while monetary policy does not. Trade restrictions can boost domestic output under fixed but not floating rates. The document also discusses interest rate differentials and currency crises using Mexico's 1994 peso crisis as a case study.
The document discusses the Mundell-Fleming model of the open economy and exchange rate regimes. It provides an overview of the key assumptions and components of the Mundell-Fleming model, including the IS* and LM* curves. It then analyzes the effects of fiscal policy, monetary policy, and trade policy under both floating and fixed exchange rate systems. The document concludes with two case studies on financial crises in Mexico and Southeast Asia that illustrate the model.
20110923 mankiw economics chap22 frontiers of microeconomicsFED事務局
1. The document discusses three topics in microeconomics: asymmetric information, political economy, and behavioral economics.
2. Asymmetric information refers to situations where one party has more or better information than the other, which can lead to problems like moral hazard or adverse selection. It discusses some of the main thinkers in this field like Stiglitz, Akerlof, and Spence.
3. Political economy examines government using analytic methods and discusses ideas like voting paradoxes, Arrow's impossibility theorem, and the median voter theory.
4. Behavioral economics shows that people are not perfectly rational and examines ideas like overconfidence, fairness, and inconsistency over time. It discusses thinkers like
The document summarizes Kuznets' hypothesis that income inequality within countries initially rises and then falls with economic development. It provides evidence from Kuznets' 1955 study showing higher inequality in less developed countries (LDCs) like India compared to developed countries (DCs) like the UK and US. Kuznets attributed the inverted-U shape relationship between development and inequality to structural changes in early industrialization benefiting high-income groups before policies and social changes in later stages reduced the gap. The document also discusses measures of inequality like the Gini coefficient and debates around Kuznets' hypothesis.
This document provides an overview of aggregate supply and the short-run tradeoff between inflation and unemployment known as the Phillips curve. It discusses three models of aggregate supply - the sticky-wage model, imperfect-information model, and sticky-price model - and how they each imply a positive relationship between output and the price level in the short run. The Phillips curve relationship is then derived from the aggregate supply relationship. The document also discusses concepts like adaptive expectations, inflation inertia, cost-push vs demand-pull inflation, and the sacrifice ratio.
The New Theory of Economic Growth: Endogenous Growth Modelinventionjournals
The document summarizes the key aspects of the new endogenous growth theory, including models proposed by Arrow, Romer, and Lucas. Arrow's "learning by doing" model endogenizes economic growth by treating knowledge as a side product of investment. Romer's 1990 model identifies a research sector that produces new ideas. Lucas' model assumes investment in education produces human capital, which spills over to increase productivity. While offering improvements over exogenous growth theory, the new endogenous growth theory has also received some criticisms around its assumptions and ability to explain differences in growth between countries.
The Lewis dual sector model of development describes an economy transitioning from subsistence agriculture to a more modern, urbanized structure. It consists of two sectors: a traditional subsistence sector with zero marginal productivity of labor, providing surplus labor; and a modern industrial sector where labor is transferred from the traditional sector, expanding output and employment through reinvested profits. However, the model is criticized for assuming profits are always reinvested when they could enable labor-saving investments or capital flight, and for assuming perfect competition in labor markets and unlimited surplus labor, which is inconsistent with historical evidence from developing countries.
types of inflation and inflationary and deflationary gap ayazmashori
This document discusses different types of inflation including definitions of inflation, deflation, disinflation, and their causes. It defines inflation as a sustained increase in prices over time. Deflation is a decrease in prices, while disinflation is a slowdown in the rate of inflation. The types of inflation include hyperinflation (over 100% per year), galloping inflation (10-100%), and creeping inflation (<10%). Causes of inflation are discussed as either demand-pull inflation from too much spending, or cost-push inflation from increased costs of production. Inflationary gaps occur when current GDP is higher than potential GDP at full employment, while deflationary gaps are when demand is below full employment supply
The document discusses the Mundell-Fleming model of an open economy. It introduces the IS-LM model and describes how the Mundell-Fleming model incorporates international trade and capital flows. Specifically, it adds an exports and imports term to the goods market equilibrium equation and a capital flows term to the balance of payments equation. The model includes downward-sloping IS and LM curves and an upward-sloping BP curve. It analyzes the effects of monetary and fiscal policy under fixed exchange rates, finding that expansionary monetary policy leads to a balance of payments deficit while fiscal policy can result in either a surplus or deficit.
The Demographic Transition Model, developed by Warren Thompson (1929), posits a shift from an agricultural, rural economy to an industrialized, urban society. A characteristic of this shift is an intermediate period of rapid population growth during which slowly declining fertility rates lag behind rapidly declining mortality rates. This presentation will explore the four stages of the Demographic Transition Model, the relationship between economic development and population growth, as well as the potential issues and shortfalls when applying this classic model to today’s developing countries.
This document discusses inflation and related economic concepts. It defines inflation as a general rise in prices throughout the economy. It also defines deflation and hyperinflation. The document outlines the four main functions of money and discusses monetary policy and central banks' role as lender of last resort. Both negative and positive outcomes of inflation are presented. Recent inflation figures for Ireland are given, showing a rate of 2.85% in October 2011. Goods driving inflation in Ireland are identified as clothing, furnishings, housing costs, and electricity.
1. The document discusses endogenous growth models and their representation of economic growth processes.
2. It addresses issues with decreasing marginal returns in endogenous growth models and introduces the Jones critique of these models.
3. Semi-endogenous growth models and the Jones model are presented as alternatives that account for decreasing marginal returns to R&D over time.
We can define heteroscedasticity as the condition in which the variance of the error term or the residual term in a regression model varies. As you can see in the above diagram, in the case of homoscedasticity, the data points are equally scattered while in the case of heteroscedasticity, the data points are not equally scattered.
Two Conditions:
1] Known Variance
2] Unknown Variance
Equality and efficiency is there a trade off or they go hand in handUsman Sarwar
This document discusses the relationship between economic equality and efficiency. It notes that while some inequality is necessary for market functioning, greater equality is associated with longer periods of economic growth. Countries with more unequal income distributions tend to experience more volatile growth that is less sustainable. There is no clear trade-off between equality and growth - equality can actually promote more robust, sustained growth over the long run.
This document discusses offer curves and how they can be used to analyze international trade. It contains the following key points:
1) An offer curve graphically represents the quantities of one good a country is willing to export in exchange for imports of another good at different price ratios, or terms of trade.
2) The derivation of a country's offer curve involves plotting its domestic cost line and determining the export-import combinations it can trade at different terms of trade.
3) The intersection of two countries' offer curves determines the terms of trade and trade quantities that will result from free trade between them. Shifts in the curves can also change the trade outcomes.
4) Gains from trade exist when
1. The document discusses the differences between the short run and long run in macroeconomics and introduces the aggregate demand and aggregate supply model.
2. In the short run, prices are sticky and output can deviate from full employment, while in the long run prices are flexible and output depends only on supply.
3. The model shows how shocks like changes in money supply, velocity, or oil prices can affect output and inflation in the short and long run.
This document discusses heteroscedasticity, or non-constant error variance, in regression analysis. It begins by defining heteroscedasticity and explaining how it violates assumptions of the classical linear regression model. The nature and potential causes of heteroscedasticity are then explored through various examples. The document introduces the method of generalized least squares (GLS) as a way to produce best linear unbiased estimators when heteroscedasticity is present. GLS transforms the data so that error variances are constant, allowing standard least squares to be applied. The consequences of using ordinary least squares in the presence of heteroscedasticity are then discussed.
The document discusses the Demographic Transition Model and the Fertility Transition Theory. The Demographic Transition Model proposes that as countries develop economically, their birth and death rates will follow a predictable pattern of decline. However, the document argues this has not occurred uniformly and modern conditions are different, questioning if it can still be used as a predictive tool. The Fertility Transition Theory asserts that a change in cultural attitudes and willingness to use contraception, along with their availability, are key drivers in fertility decline in developing countries, rather than economic development alone.
The Philip curve shows an inverse relationship between the rate of unemployment and the rate of change in money wages in the short run. Friedman argued that in the long run, there is no tradeoff between inflation and unemployment - the Philip curve becomes vertical at the natural rate of unemployment, which is the rate where expected and actual inflation are equal. Temporary reductions in unemployment below the natural rate are only possible if inflation rises above expectations, but eventually expectations will adjust and unemployment will return to the natural rate, even as inflation accelerates.
Marx proposed 5 stages of economic growth: primitive, slave, feudal, capitalist, socialist. He believed surplus value generated by workers is exploited by capitalists. Ricardo analyzed distribution of output between landlords, capitalists, workers. Lewis proposed a dual sector model of surplus rural labor moving to high wage urban sectors. Rostow identified 5 stages of growth: traditional, preconditions, take-off, drive to maturity, high mass consumption. Myrdal explained circular and cumulative causation of development benefiting rich regions more than poor due to backwash and spread effects.
This document defines and provides examples of cooperative and non-cooperative games. It discusses that in cooperative games, coalitions can form and players can negotiate binding agreements, while in non-cooperative games players act independently without negotiation. The document also defines the key elements of a cooperative game as the set of players and a characteristic function specifying the value created by different player subsets. Finally, it provides an example characteristic function for a cooperative game involving a seller and two buyers.
Problem set 3 - Statistics and Econometrics - Msc Business Analytics - Imperi...Jonathan Zimmermann
The document contains a problem set with exercises on estimating regression models using survey and NBA player salary data. For exercise 1, the respondent estimates several linear regression models to test the effects of marijuana usage on wages while controlling for other factors like education and gender. For exercise 2, the respondent estimates regression models relating NBA player points per game to experience, position, and other variables like marital status. Adding interaction terms between marital status and experience variables, there is no strong evidence that marital status significantly affects points per game based on the results.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 8 of an economics textbook on economic growth. It discusses how to incorporate technological progress into the Solow growth model by including a variable for labor efficiency that grows exogenously over time. It then reviews empirical evidence on growth, including balanced growth, conditional convergence between countries, and the relationship between factor accumulation and production efficiency. Finally, it examines policy issues such as evaluating a country's saving rate and how to increase savings and allocate investment between different types of capital.
The European sovereign debt crisis began in late 2009 as fears grew over rising private and government debt levels in Europe. Greece, Ireland, and Portugal were hit hardest initially, accounting for 6% of Eurozone GDP combined. By 2012, concerns had spread to Spain as well. The crisis impacted EU politics and led to leadership changes in affected countries. Key causes included rising household and government debts, trade imbalances, structural issues in sharing a currency without a common fiscal policy, monetary policy inflexibility within the Eurozone, and loss of investor confidence. Long term solutions proposed integrating fiscal policies more through options like a European fiscal union or common Eurobonds.
13 the phillips curve and expectations theoryNepDevWiki
This document provides an overview of the Phillips Curve and expectations theory. It discusses the short-run and long-run Phillips Curves, and how adaptive and rational expectations theories explain the natural rate model. Adaptive expectations theory suggests that expansionary policies are useless long-run to reduce unemployment, while rational expectations theory indicates policies can be negated by anticipated effects. The document also reviews incomes policies and how different macroeconomic models like monetarism, Keynesianism, supply-side economics and the new classical school approach curing inflation.
This document discusses short-run aggregate supply (SRAS) and how it differs from long-run aggregate supply (LRAS). It introduces three models that can explain the upward slope of the SRAS curve: the sticky-wage model, imperfect-information model, and sticky-price model. Each model results in the same short-run aggregate supply equation, where output deviates from potential when the price level differs from expected inflation. The document also discusses how the SRAS curve relates to the Phillips curve and how both represent the short-run tradeoff between inflation and unemployment.
The document discusses the concept of the "natural resource curse" or "resource trap", where countries with large natural resource wealth tend to have less economic growth than countries with fewer natural resources. Some of the main causes of this are political conflicts over access to resource revenues, volatility of commodity prices, rapid depletion of finite resources, and currency appreciation that damages other industries. To avoid this curse, countries need policies like sovereign wealth funds to invest resource revenues wisely, economic diversification, and good governance around resource extraction.
The document summarizes key aspects of the Solow growth model. It explains that the Solow model replaced the fixed production function of the Harrod-Domar model with a neoclassical production function allowing for factor substitution. It presents the basic equations of the Solow model showing that changes in capital per worker are determined by savings, population growth, and depreciation. It illustrates the Solow diagram and how steady state equilibrium is reached. It analyzes how changes in the saving rate and population growth rate impact the model.
Development economics II for the third year economics students 2024 by Tesfay...TesfayeBiruAsefa
This document provides an outline for a course on Development Economics II. It covers several topics related to population growth and economic development, including: the demographic transition model showing the shift from high mortality/fertility to low mortality/fertility; causes of high fertility rates in developing countries according to Malthusian and household models; and trends in global population growth with most growth occurring in developing regions and youth populations exceeding older populations. The instructor's contact information and a more detailed breakdown of Topic 1 on population growth are also included.
Changing demographics and economic growth bloomDESMOND YUEN
This document discusses key trends in global demographics and their implications. It notes that while population growth rates have declined globally, absolute numbers continue to rise significantly each decade. Less developed regions now encompass most of the world's population and will continue to see the vast majority of population increases. Mortality declines and fertility declines have driven major shifts in population age structures. Younger populations in places like Africa and South Asia may benefit economic growth if policies support labor force participation and human capital development, while aging societies globally face challenges supporting retirees that policies aim to address.
The document discusses the Mundell-Fleming model of an open economy. It introduces the IS-LM model and describes how the Mundell-Fleming model incorporates international trade and capital flows. Specifically, it adds an exports and imports term to the goods market equilibrium equation and a capital flows term to the balance of payments equation. The model includes downward-sloping IS and LM curves and an upward-sloping BP curve. It analyzes the effects of monetary and fiscal policy under fixed exchange rates, finding that expansionary monetary policy leads to a balance of payments deficit while fiscal policy can result in either a surplus or deficit.
The Demographic Transition Model, developed by Warren Thompson (1929), posits a shift from an agricultural, rural economy to an industrialized, urban society. A characteristic of this shift is an intermediate period of rapid population growth during which slowly declining fertility rates lag behind rapidly declining mortality rates. This presentation will explore the four stages of the Demographic Transition Model, the relationship between economic development and population growth, as well as the potential issues and shortfalls when applying this classic model to today’s developing countries.
This document discusses inflation and related economic concepts. It defines inflation as a general rise in prices throughout the economy. It also defines deflation and hyperinflation. The document outlines the four main functions of money and discusses monetary policy and central banks' role as lender of last resort. Both negative and positive outcomes of inflation are presented. Recent inflation figures for Ireland are given, showing a rate of 2.85% in October 2011. Goods driving inflation in Ireland are identified as clothing, furnishings, housing costs, and electricity.
1. The document discusses endogenous growth models and their representation of economic growth processes.
2. It addresses issues with decreasing marginal returns in endogenous growth models and introduces the Jones critique of these models.
3. Semi-endogenous growth models and the Jones model are presented as alternatives that account for decreasing marginal returns to R&D over time.
We can define heteroscedasticity as the condition in which the variance of the error term or the residual term in a regression model varies. As you can see in the above diagram, in the case of homoscedasticity, the data points are equally scattered while in the case of heteroscedasticity, the data points are not equally scattered.
Two Conditions:
1] Known Variance
2] Unknown Variance
Equality and efficiency is there a trade off or they go hand in handUsman Sarwar
This document discusses the relationship between economic equality and efficiency. It notes that while some inequality is necessary for market functioning, greater equality is associated with longer periods of economic growth. Countries with more unequal income distributions tend to experience more volatile growth that is less sustainable. There is no clear trade-off between equality and growth - equality can actually promote more robust, sustained growth over the long run.
This document discusses offer curves and how they can be used to analyze international trade. It contains the following key points:
1) An offer curve graphically represents the quantities of one good a country is willing to export in exchange for imports of another good at different price ratios, or terms of trade.
2) The derivation of a country's offer curve involves plotting its domestic cost line and determining the export-import combinations it can trade at different terms of trade.
3) The intersection of two countries' offer curves determines the terms of trade and trade quantities that will result from free trade between them. Shifts in the curves can also change the trade outcomes.
4) Gains from trade exist when
1. The document discusses the differences between the short run and long run in macroeconomics and introduces the aggregate demand and aggregate supply model.
2. In the short run, prices are sticky and output can deviate from full employment, while in the long run prices are flexible and output depends only on supply.
3. The model shows how shocks like changes in money supply, velocity, or oil prices can affect output and inflation in the short and long run.
This document discusses heteroscedasticity, or non-constant error variance, in regression analysis. It begins by defining heteroscedasticity and explaining how it violates assumptions of the classical linear regression model. The nature and potential causes of heteroscedasticity are then explored through various examples. The document introduces the method of generalized least squares (GLS) as a way to produce best linear unbiased estimators when heteroscedasticity is present. GLS transforms the data so that error variances are constant, allowing standard least squares to be applied. The consequences of using ordinary least squares in the presence of heteroscedasticity are then discussed.
The document discusses the Demographic Transition Model and the Fertility Transition Theory. The Demographic Transition Model proposes that as countries develop economically, their birth and death rates will follow a predictable pattern of decline. However, the document argues this has not occurred uniformly and modern conditions are different, questioning if it can still be used as a predictive tool. The Fertility Transition Theory asserts that a change in cultural attitudes and willingness to use contraception, along with their availability, are key drivers in fertility decline in developing countries, rather than economic development alone.
The Philip curve shows an inverse relationship between the rate of unemployment and the rate of change in money wages in the short run. Friedman argued that in the long run, there is no tradeoff between inflation and unemployment - the Philip curve becomes vertical at the natural rate of unemployment, which is the rate where expected and actual inflation are equal. Temporary reductions in unemployment below the natural rate are only possible if inflation rises above expectations, but eventually expectations will adjust and unemployment will return to the natural rate, even as inflation accelerates.
Marx proposed 5 stages of economic growth: primitive, slave, feudal, capitalist, socialist. He believed surplus value generated by workers is exploited by capitalists. Ricardo analyzed distribution of output between landlords, capitalists, workers. Lewis proposed a dual sector model of surplus rural labor moving to high wage urban sectors. Rostow identified 5 stages of growth: traditional, preconditions, take-off, drive to maturity, high mass consumption. Myrdal explained circular and cumulative causation of development benefiting rich regions more than poor due to backwash and spread effects.
This document defines and provides examples of cooperative and non-cooperative games. It discusses that in cooperative games, coalitions can form and players can negotiate binding agreements, while in non-cooperative games players act independently without negotiation. The document also defines the key elements of a cooperative game as the set of players and a characteristic function specifying the value created by different player subsets. Finally, it provides an example characteristic function for a cooperative game involving a seller and two buyers.
Problem set 3 - Statistics and Econometrics - Msc Business Analytics - Imperi...Jonathan Zimmermann
The document contains a problem set with exercises on estimating regression models using survey and NBA player salary data. For exercise 1, the respondent estimates several linear regression models to test the effects of marijuana usage on wages while controlling for other factors like education and gender. For exercise 2, the respondent estimates regression models relating NBA player points per game to experience, position, and other variables like marital status. Adding interaction terms between marital status and experience variables, there is no strong evidence that marital status significantly affects points per game based on the results.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 8 of an economics textbook on economic growth. It discusses how to incorporate technological progress into the Solow growth model by including a variable for labor efficiency that grows exogenously over time. It then reviews empirical evidence on growth, including balanced growth, conditional convergence between countries, and the relationship between factor accumulation and production efficiency. Finally, it examines policy issues such as evaluating a country's saving rate and how to increase savings and allocate investment between different types of capital.
The European sovereign debt crisis began in late 2009 as fears grew over rising private and government debt levels in Europe. Greece, Ireland, and Portugal were hit hardest initially, accounting for 6% of Eurozone GDP combined. By 2012, concerns had spread to Spain as well. The crisis impacted EU politics and led to leadership changes in affected countries. Key causes included rising household and government debts, trade imbalances, structural issues in sharing a currency without a common fiscal policy, monetary policy inflexibility within the Eurozone, and loss of investor confidence. Long term solutions proposed integrating fiscal policies more through options like a European fiscal union or common Eurobonds.
13 the phillips curve and expectations theoryNepDevWiki
This document provides an overview of the Phillips Curve and expectations theory. It discusses the short-run and long-run Phillips Curves, and how adaptive and rational expectations theories explain the natural rate model. Adaptive expectations theory suggests that expansionary policies are useless long-run to reduce unemployment, while rational expectations theory indicates policies can be negated by anticipated effects. The document also reviews incomes policies and how different macroeconomic models like monetarism, Keynesianism, supply-side economics and the new classical school approach curing inflation.
This document discusses short-run aggregate supply (SRAS) and how it differs from long-run aggregate supply (LRAS). It introduces three models that can explain the upward slope of the SRAS curve: the sticky-wage model, imperfect-information model, and sticky-price model. Each model results in the same short-run aggregate supply equation, where output deviates from potential when the price level differs from expected inflation. The document also discusses how the SRAS curve relates to the Phillips curve and how both represent the short-run tradeoff between inflation and unemployment.
The document discusses the concept of the "natural resource curse" or "resource trap", where countries with large natural resource wealth tend to have less economic growth than countries with fewer natural resources. Some of the main causes of this are political conflicts over access to resource revenues, volatility of commodity prices, rapid depletion of finite resources, and currency appreciation that damages other industries. To avoid this curse, countries need policies like sovereign wealth funds to invest resource revenues wisely, economic diversification, and good governance around resource extraction.
The document summarizes key aspects of the Solow growth model. It explains that the Solow model replaced the fixed production function of the Harrod-Domar model with a neoclassical production function allowing for factor substitution. It presents the basic equations of the Solow model showing that changes in capital per worker are determined by savings, population growth, and depreciation. It illustrates the Solow diagram and how steady state equilibrium is reached. It analyzes how changes in the saving rate and population growth rate impact the model.
Development economics II for the third year economics students 2024 by Tesfay...TesfayeBiruAsefa
This document provides an outline for a course on Development Economics II. It covers several topics related to population growth and economic development, including: the demographic transition model showing the shift from high mortality/fertility to low mortality/fertility; causes of high fertility rates in developing countries according to Malthusian and household models; and trends in global population growth with most growth occurring in developing regions and youth populations exceeding older populations. The instructor's contact information and a more detailed breakdown of Topic 1 on population growth are also included.
Changing demographics and economic growth bloomDESMOND YUEN
This document discusses key trends in global demographics and their implications. It notes that while population growth rates have declined globally, absolute numbers continue to rise significantly each decade. Less developed regions now encompass most of the world's population and will continue to see the vast majority of population increases. Mortality declines and fertility declines have driven major shifts in population age structures. Younger populations in places like Africa and South Asia may benefit economic growth if policies support labor force participation and human capital development, while aging societies globally face challenges supporting retirees that policies aim to address.
Population 2020 - Demographics can be a potent driver of the pace and process...DESMOND YUEN
“Demography is destiny” is an oft-cited phrase that suggests the size, growth, and structure of a nation’s population determines its long-term social, economic, and political fabric. The phrase highlights the role of demographics in shaping many complex challenges and opportunities societies face, including several pertinent to economic growth and development.
Nevertheless, it is an overstatement to say that demography determines all, as it downplays the fact that both demographic trajectories and their development implications are responsive to economic incentives; to policy and institutional reforms; and to changes in technology, cultural norms, and behavior.
The world is undergoing a major demographic upheaval with three key components: population growth, changes in fertility and mortality, and associated changes in population age structure.
Global population has grown rapidly over the past 50 years, from 2 billion in 1950 to 6.5 billion currently. [1] Most population growth now occurs in developing countries, whose populations are projected to more than double by 2050. [2] Fertility rates have declined worldwide from 5 children per woman in 1950 to a projected rate of 2 by 2050, though developing world rates remain higher. [3] Mortality rates have also declined sharply due to public health improvements, increasing life expectancy globally from 47 to 65 years currently and a projected 75 years by 2050.
Demographic analysis, the statistical description of human populations, is a tool used by government agencies, political parties, and manufacturers of consumer goods. Polls conducted on every topic imaginable, from age to toothpaste preference, give the government and corporations an idea of who the public is and what it needs and wants.
This document outlines the course content for a class on population growth and economic development. The six main topics covered are: 1) Population growth and economic development, 2) Human capital: education and health, 3) Rural-urban interaction and unemployment, 4) Agriculture and development, 5) International trade and industrialization, and 6) Foreign aid, debt, and financial reform. The first chapter focuses on measuring population growth, its impact on development, and basic concepts like birth rate and death rate. It also discusses Thomas Malthus' theory of the population trap, where high population growth leads to diminishing resources and low standards of living.
The document discusses global population trends and issues. It notes that while population growth rates are slowing in some countries and regions, the total global population will still likely reach 10 billion by 2100 due to the large existing population. Countries and regions vary widely in terms of population age structures, growth rates, and challenges. Areas like South Asia, parts of Africa, and less developed countries overall continue to experience high population growth that strains resources, while developed nations and some in Europe face challenges of declining and aging populations.
population growth and economic developmenttalha butt
This document is a summary of a group project submitted by 6 students to their professor on the topic of population growth and economic development. It discusses 3 learning objectives: 1) the relationship between population growth and income growth, 2) Thomas Malthus' prediction of a "Malthusian trap", and 3) the demographic transition in developed vs developing countries. It provides figures and explanations of concepts like the Malthusian trap, the demographic transition, and how income levels affect population growth rates.
C6 POPULATION GROWTH (econdev)_20240306_214313_0000.pdfSARAHJOYLVELANTE
This document discusses population growth and its relationship to economic development. It begins by introducing the topic and noting that the world's population reached 7.2 billion in 2013 and is projected to grow significantly by 2050. It then covers several key aspects of population growth, including its history from ancient times through the present, trends in fertility and mortality rates, age structure and dependency burdens, and the concept of demographic transition as countries develop economically.
The document provides an overview of population growth trends globally and in India. It discusses key topics like the demographic transition model, past and projected world population growth, and current population growth rates in different countries and regions. The demographic transition model outlines the typical stages that societies progress through as mortality and birth rates change due to factors like industrialization, urbanization, and increased access to family planning. World population grew slowly until the 18th century but has increased rapidly in recent centuries, reaching 6.8 billion in 2010, with most growth occurring in developing countries still in the early stages of the demographic transition.
Wdr 1984 'step to reduce fertility' confirms that the un and the who are im...PublicLeaks
This document is the 1984 World Development Report published by the World Bank. It provides an overview of the global economic outlook and analyzes the links between population change and development. The report finds that population growth does not necessarily cause poverty but can make development more difficult, especially in countries with high fertility. It reviews factors influencing fertility and experiences of countries that have reduced birth rates. The report concludes that public policies supporting education, health and family planning can slow population growth in a way consistent with individual freedom and economic progress.
This document provides an overview of concepts and measures in demography, including definitions, objectives, and key topics. It begins with defining demography as the scientific study of human populations and their dynamics. It then covers concepts like population size, distribution, composition, change, and estimates/projections. Mortality measures are also introduced. The impacts of population on development, including links between population growth, agriculture, environment, and health, are examined. Specific examples from Ethiopia related to population trends, urbanization, food security, and access to health care and water are also summarized.
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The document discusses population pyramids and how to interpret them. It provides examples of population pyramids for Ethiopia and the UK to demonstrate the differences between less and more economically developed countries. The pyramids show that developing countries have wider bases and narrower tops, indicating high birth rates, while developed country pyramids are taller with more pronounced tops, reflecting lower birth rates. The document also analyzes changes between Mexico's 1980 and 2000 population pyramids to illustrate how reduced death rates can impact a country's age structure over time.
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Outline
☻Basic issues
☻Trends in population growth
☻Definitions and concepts
☻The hidden momentum of population growth
☻The demographic transition
☻The causes of high fertility in developing countries:
theories
☻Effects of population growth on economic development:
Conflicting views
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1. The Basic issues: population growth
and the quality of life
► world population estimate 2010: 6.9 bln; projected at 9.2 bln in
2050
► overwhelming majority will be in the developing world
► should we worry? Or is this a opportunity?
► After all, the world population grew very little up until 1800
(when economic growth was low) and then ‘exploded’ but at the
same time the world kept getting richer on average.
► The first billion was reached in 1804, the second in 1927 (123
years later), the third in 1960 (33 years), the fourth in 1974 (14
years), the fifth in 1987 (13 years), the sixth in 1999 (12 years),
seventh in 2012(12 years) and Eighth 2022(10 years).
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☻The reason for the sudden change in overall population trends is that for
almost all of recorded history, the rate of population change, whether up
or down, had been strongly influenced by the combined effects of
famine, disease, malnutrition, plague, and war—conditions that resulted
in high and fluctuating death rates.
☻ In the twentieth century, such conditions came increasingly under
technological and economic control. As a result, human mortality (the
death rate) is now lower than at any other point in human existence.
Basic issues------------------
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☻It is this decline in mortality resulting from rapid technological
advances in modern medicine and the spread of modern sanitation
measures throughout the world, particularly within the past half century
that has resulted in the unprecedented increases in world population
growth, especially in developing countries.
☻ In short, population growth today is primarily the result of a rapid
transition from a long historical era characterized by high birth and
death rates to one in which death rates have fallen sharply but birth
rates, especially in developing countries, have fallen more slowly
from their historically high levels.
Basic issues------------------
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population growth and the quality of life
► Each year about 75 mln people added to the world
population; of which 97% in developing countries
► Will developing countries be able to extend the
coverage and improve the quality of health care and
education in the face of rapid population growth?
► Is there a relationship between poverty and family
size?
► Is there a relationship between what the developed
countries have experienced demographically and
what the developing countries are facing now?
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2. Structure of the World population
and age structure
I. By geographic region
More than 3/4 live in developing countries
Africa will grow the most till 1950
Africa, LA, Asia = 88% of world population
in 2050 (70% in 1970)
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3. Concepts and definitions
►Rate of population increase is measured as the
percentage yearly net relative change in population due to
natural increase and net international migration.
►Natural increase is the difference in the fertility rate and
mortality rate.
►Total fertility rate (TFR) is the average number of
children a woman would have assuming that the current
age-specific birth rates remain constant throughout her
childbearing years.
►The child bearing years range between 15-49 years of age.
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►Dependency burden:
Youth dependency ratio
Old age dependency ratio
► The youth dependency gives rise to the hidden
momentum of population growth.
► It is a dynamic latent process of population growth
where population continues to grow despite a fall in
birth rate due to larger number of child bearing
couples.
Concepts conti……………..
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Hidden Momentum of Population Growth
Perhaps the least understood aspect of population
growth is its tendency to continue even after birth rates
have declined substantially.
Population growth has a built-in tendency to
continue, a powerful momentum that, like a speeding
automobile when the brakes are applied, tends to
keep going for some time before coming to a stop.
In the case of population growth, this momentum can
persist for decades after birth rates drop.
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17. 17 There are two basic reasons for this:
⁂ First, high birth rates cannot be altered substantially overnight.
The social, economic, and institutional forces that have influenced
fertility rates over the course of centuries do not simply evaporate
at the urging of national leaders.
We know from the experience of European nations that such
reductions in birth rates can take many decades.
Consequently, even if developing countries assign top priority to
the limitation of population growth, it will still take many years to
lower national fertility to desired levels.
Hidden conti………..
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18. 18 ⁂ The second and less obvious reason for the hidden momentum of
population growth relates to the age structure of many developing
countries’ populations.
Figure below illustrates the great difference between age structures
in less developed and more developed countries by means of two
population pyramids for 2010.
Each pyramid rises by five-year age intervals for both males and
females, with the total number in each age cohort measured on the
horizontal axis.
Hidden conti………..
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Population Pyramids: All Developed and
Developing Countries and Case of Ethiopia
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20. 20 The figure clearly reveals that most future population growth
will take place in the developing world.
The steeper bottom rungs for the developing world as a whole,
reflects the large declines in population growth in lower-
middle income developing countries over the past quarter
century, and particularly in China.
For developed countries, in the contemporary period the
population in middle cohorts(group) is typically greater
than that of young cohorts;
In contrary, the less developed nation’s pyramid expressed as
share of population, young people greatly outnumber their
parents.
Hidden conti………..
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4. The Demographic Transition
The process by which fertility rates eventually decline to
replacement levels has been portrayed by a famous
concept in economic demography called the
demographic transition.
The demographic transition attempts to explain
why all contemporary developed nations have more
or less passed through the same three stages of
modern population history.
Three stages:
First phase:: for millennia, birth and deaths rates have
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Second phase: death rates started declining thanks
to better health practices and increases in agricultural
and industrial productivity; with first steady birth rates
and then demographic inertia due to the age structure,
this caused population to explode in Europe in the
19th century and in the developing world in the mid-
20th century.
Third phase: with declining birth rates and an aging
population, birth and death rates again converge to a
low-level equilibrium already reached by developed
countries.
The Demo. Transition………………..
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23. 23 The Demographic Transition
The Demo. Transition………………..
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25. 25 while developing countries are either in the
second or at the beginning of the third phase
For developing countries: things happened much
later, and with much more variety in outcomes
Birth rates higher than in pre-industrial Europe
(women marry younger)
case A: Taiwan; China; S. Korea, Chile, etc. —
rapid fall in population growth
case B: death rates stay high (poverty, AIDS) —
SSA, some middle-East
The Demo. Transition………………..
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5.Causes of High Fertility in Developing Countries
A. The Malthusian population trap
More than two centuries ago, the Reverend Thomas Malthus put forward a
theory of the relationship between population growth and economic
development that is influential today.
Writing in his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population and drawing on the
concept of diminishing returns, Malthus postulated a universal tendency for the
population to grow at a geometric rate, doubling every 30 to 40 years.
country, unless checked by dwindling food supplies,
At the same time, because of diminishing returns to the fixed factor, land, food
supplies could expand only at a roughly arithmetic rate.
In fact, as each member of the population would have less land to work, his or
her marginal contribution to food production would actually start to decline.
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►Because the growth in food supplies could not keep pace with
the burgeoning population, per capita incomes would have a
tendency to fall so low as to lead to a stable population existing
barely at or slightly above the subsistence level.
►Malthusian population trap: countries would be trapped in
low per-capita incomes (per capita food), and population would
stabilize at a subsistence level.
►Malthus therefore contended that the only way to avoid this
condition of chronic low levels of living or absolute poverty was
for people to engage in “moral restraint” and limit the
number of their progeny.
preventive checks
positive checks(starvation, disease, wars)
►Hence we might regard Malthus, indirectly and inadvertently,
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Criticisms
The Malthusian theories as applied to contemporary developing
nations have severely limited relevance for the following reasons:
1. They do not take adequate account of the role and impact of
technological progress.
2. They are based on a hypothesis about a macro relationship
between population growth and levels of per capita income that
does not stand up to empirical testing of the modern period.
3. They focus on the wrong variable, per capita income, as the principal
determinant of population growth rates.
4. A much better and more valid approach to the question of
population and development centers on the microeconomics of
family size decision making in which individual, and not
aggregate, levels of living become the principal determinant of a
family’s decision to have more or fewer children.
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► Individual or family decision making is the
principal determinant of family size.
► The interplay between microeconomic
determinants of family fertility are understood
using theory of consumer choice
► Fertility decisions (family size) are taken at the
microeconomic level by households. It is a
rational economic decision of “demand for
children.”
B. The Microeconomic Household Theory of Fertility
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Microeconomic Theory of Fertility……………..
Why are there so many children in poor
households?
☻ children are an “economic investment” rather than
a “consumption good” .
☻ the “expected return of the investment” is given by
child labor and financial support for parents in old
age.
☻In developing countries, parents have children up
to the point at which marginal economic
benefit = marginal private cost.
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Demand for Children Equation
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t
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Y
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Where
Cd is the demand for surviving children
Y is the level of household income
Pc is the “net” price of children
Px is price of all other goods
tx is the tastes for goods relative to children
Micro Theory of Fertility...
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Demand for Children Equation Micro Theory of Fertility...
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Implications of Women’s Education for
Development and Fertility
the following factors lead to decreased birth
rates
increase in the education of women
increase in female non-agriculture wage employment oppotunity
rise in family income
reduction in infant mortality
development of old-age and social security safety nets
expanded schooling opportunities (to exploit the quality trade-off)
Of course, information about birth control
practices would help too.
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6. The Consequences of High fertility:
Some Conflicting Opinions
I. Pop. Growth is Not a Real Problem/ Optimist view
II. Population growth is a Real Problem /Pessimist view
III. Neutralist view
Population growth restricts economic growth
The “pessimistic” Theory
Population growth promotes economic growth
The “optimistic” theory
Population growth is independent of economic growth
The “neutralist” theory
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36. 36 I. “Population growth is Not a Real Problem” Arguments:
According to this argument, the real problem is not
population growth but the following:
Underdevelopment- If correct strategies are pursued and lead to
higher levels of living, greater self-esteem, and expanded freedom,
population will take care of itself.
World resource depletion and environmental destruction-
less than one-quarter of the world’s population, consume almost 80%
of the world’s resources.
Population Distribution-too many people concentrated in too
small an area
Subordination of women-their inferior roles
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II. Population Growth Is a Real Problem arguments/ Pessimists
Extremist arguments: Population and the Global Crisis
This position attempts to attribute almost all of the world’s economic
and social evils to excessive population growth.
It is regarded as the principal cause of:
poverty,
low levels of living,
malnutrition,
ill health,
environmental degradation, etc.
Calls for coercive measures such as compulsory sterilization to
control family size
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Theoretical arguments:
Population-poverty cycle theory & the need for
family planning;
Too rapid population growth yields negative
economic consequences and thus should be a real
concern for developing countries.
Advocates start from the basic proposition that
population growth intensifies economic, social, and
psychological problems.
Pessimists------------------------
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Pessimists-----------
Negative consequences of population growth on:
Economic growth
Poverty and Inequality
Education
Health
Food
Environment
International migration
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III. Effects of Population Growth on Economic
Growth: Neutralists
No statistical relationship between population and
economic growth.
Developing countries can take advantage of the
demographic dividend.
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► Lower economic growth: evidences shows that large family size Lowers per capita
income growth in most developing countries, especially those that are already poor.
► Poverty & Inequality:
-Poor people usually bear burden of population.
-To the extent that large families perpetuate poverty, they also aggravate inequality.
► Adverse impact on education:
-Large family size and low incomes restrict the opportunities of parents to educate all
their children. At national level, it causes educational expenditures to be spread more
thinly, lowering quality for the sake of quantity.
► Adverse impact on health:
-High fertility harms the health of mothers and children.
-It increases the health risks of pregnancy, and closely spaced births have been shown to
reduce birth weight and increase child mortality rates.
1.7.Empirical arguments: Seven Negative Consequences
of Population Growth
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►Food issues: Feeding the world’s population is made more difficult by rapid
population growth
►Impact on the environment: Environmental degradation occurs in the form
of:
-deforestation,
-fuel wood depletion,
-soil erosion,
-declining fish and animal stocks,
-inadequate and unsafe water,
-air pollution, and urban congestion Frictions
►Impact on international migration:
-an excess of job seekers (caused by rapid population growth) over job
opportunities is surely contributes to illegal international migration.
Seven Negative Consequences of Pop……………………..
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Toward a Consensus
Despite the conflicting opinions, there is some common
ground on the following:
Population is not the primary cause of lower living
levels, but may be one factor;
Population growth is more a consequence than a cause
of underdevelopment;
It’s not numbers but quality of life;
Market failures: potential negative social externalities;
Voluntary decreases in fertility is generally desirable
for most developing countries with still-expanding
populations
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What Developing Countries Can Do?
Persuasion/ treat through education
Family planning programs
Address incentives and disincentives for having children
through the principal variables influencing the demand for
children
Coercion / influence is not a good option
Raise the socioeconomic status of women
Increase employment opportunities for women (increases
opportunity cost of having more children, as in
microeconomic household theory)
1.8 Some Policy Approaches
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II. What the Developed Countries Can Do Generally
Address resources use inequities
More open migration policies
How Developed Countries Can Help Developing
Countries with Their Population Programs?
Research into technology of fertility control
Financial assistance for family planning programs
Policy Approaches cont’d--------------------------------------
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