Chapter
The salient ideas of the orthodox development paradigm and the theoretical grounding of the neoclassical system
The structuralist critique
Factoral terms of trade and the pivotal position of agriculture
Class structure and economic development
Appendix: North-South convergence in a Lewis-type model
3 Incomplete markets and the "new development economics"
Cases of incomplete markets
Incomplete markets in foreign exchange
The systematic underpinning of market incompleteness in foreign exchange and trade: Ricardian productivity differentials
Incomplete exchange and trade in a quasi-Autralian model
Pitfalls and pay-offs of intervention in incomplete markets
Appendix: The Ricardo Principle
Part II Theory and empirical analysis
4 Market incompleteness in an open-economy LDC
A welfare model with tradables and nontradables
The poor countries' Dutch disease
From nominal to real exchange rate: Is there an incomplete market?
Appendix: Constrained-equilibrium expenditure curve
5 The relationship between real and nominal exchange rates
Purchasing power parity and exchange rates
Measurement of real exchange rates
Absolute vs. relative purchasing power parity
External-terms-of-trade real exchange rates
Internal-terms-of-trade real exchange rates
Measurement of absolute purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity prices and real exchange rates
Appendix: Extensions of purchasing power parity measurement
6 Empirical investigation of real exchange rates: Tradability and relative prices
The elements of tradability
International tradability and transaction costs
The empirical content of tradability
The criterion of tradability plus tradedness
The normalization procedure: A throwback to the law of one price?
7 An endogenous growth model of incomplete markets in foreign exchange
The conventional endogenous growth models
An endogenous growth model with incomplete markets
Implementation of an endogenous growth framework
The explanatory variables of primary interest
The stylized endogenous growth variables
Ordinary least squares results
Causality tests and alternative models
Causality: An interpretation of market incompleteness
Comparison with other studies
Why are the strong results surprising? Development policy failure and development politics failure
8 Are devaluations possibly contractionary? A quasi-Australian model with tradables and nontradables
Formal comparative statics
An empirical model of the pass-through
Diagrammatical definitions and measurement
Testable hypotheses and data
Appendix: The signs of the partial derivatives
Part III Successes and failures in development: Good/bad economics and governance
9 Japan: Overvaluation without rent-seeking
The aftermath of World War II
Overriding the foreign exchange and trade markets
Overvaluation of nominal exchange rate
Foreign exchange control and import policies
Overriding the labor market and the role of domestic demand
The unlimited supplies of labor and incomplete markets
Appropriate industrial policies
Conclusion: A nonrevisionist interpretation
10 The Philippines: Failure in policy and politics
The stage and the setting
Land concentration and land reform
Inadequate infrastructure
Persistent undervaluation of the exchange rate
Intervention policies for (or despite) undervaluation
Interventions for export-led industrialization
Interventions for export-led agricultural growth
Low labor-absorptive capacity
11 Financial integration and the refractory role of intervention: Uruguay and Taiwan
Taiwanese agriculture: The foundation of pluralistic development
Uruguay: Agricultural stagnation
Uruguay: The change in track and the spurts of growth
Taiwan: The train of industrialization and the locomotive of trade
Comparative evaluation of the growth in the real sector: The role of domestic demand
The tradable financial sector
Uruguay: The costs of asymmetric financial integration
Taiwan: Financial integration with exceptional circumstances
12 Summary, conclusions, and policy recommendations