myths and realities of long run development
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Myths and Realities of Long-Run Development
A Look At Deeper Determinants
By
Lubna Hasan
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World Income Map
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Neoclassical Growth Economics
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Growth and Foreign Aid
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Deeper Determinants of Growth
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The Deeper Determinants
Geography Hypothesis: Current distribution of world income is determined by geographical factors.
Institutions Hypothesis: Institutions are the fundamental causes behind differences in economic performance across countries.
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Geography Hypothesis
Climate Theories (Montesquieu, Huntington, GilFillan)
Temperature and humidity affect work effort which affect productivity
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Hydraulic Civilizations (Wittfogel)
Societies dependent on large scale irrigation networks develop highly stratified societies with impersonal governments and monopolization of political power
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The Coldward Course of Progress
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Geography Hypothesis
Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Landes)Climate, disease and Water
Resource CurseThe Dutch Disease (Gylfason)
Rent Seeking (Auty, Collier and Hoeffler)
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Geography Determines
Sachs , Gallup, and Mellinger
Agriculture productivity is low in tropics
Tropical regions bear a higher burden of disease
Landlocked countries are hindered in development due to high transportation cost.
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Geography and Long-Run Development
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies (Diamond 1997)
Why did Europe colonize America and not the other way around?
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Geography and Long-Run Development
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies (Diamond 1997)
Typically he asked why a few hundred Spaniards under CortŽs and Pizarro overthrew the Aztec and Inca Empires? Why Emperors Montezuma or Atahuallpa didn’t lead the Aztecs or Incas to conquer Europe?
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Geography and Long-Run Development
Europe had superior technology (and better immunity against infectious diseases) and political organization compared to any other region around 1500 A.D. – the time when epoch of colonization began to take place.
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Geography and Long-Run Development
Eurasia was naturally endowed with the highest number of animal and plant species that could be domesticated.
Its east/west axis meant easier diffusion of these species across the whole region
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Geography and Long-Run Development
Domestication of animals revolutionized land transport, agriculture. Use of animals in agriculture meant that the farmer could till larger tracts of land then he could do so with his own effort alone. Domestication of plants meant more calories per acre compared to wild habitat where most species are inedible.
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Geography and Long-Run Development
Dense population settlements began to emerge.
Food surpluses generated in agriculture led to increased specialization of work force and emergence of stratified and politically centralized societies.
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Geography and Long-Run Development
These developments were accompanied by technological advancement as craftspeople devoted themselves to science of metallurgy, and writing etc.
So Eurasia had advantage in guns (and germs), swords, oceangoing technology (Large ships, maps and other navigation tools) This early advantage allowed Eurasia to colonize the Americas and Africa.
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Biogeography and Long-Run Development
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Independent Origins of Sedentary Agriculture
Area Date Domesticated Plants
Domesticated Animals
Near East 8500 B.C wheat, barley, pea goats, sheep
China 7500 B.C rice, millet pig
Central Mexico 3500 B.C corn, beans turkey
South Central Andes
3500 B.C Potato, manioc llama, guinea pig
Eastern United States
2500 B.C sunflower none
Sub-Saharan Africa
4000 B.C sorghum none
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Distribution of Species Suitable for Domestication
Area Plants Animals
Near East, Europe, North Africa
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East Asia 6 7
Southeast Asia 6 2
Sub-Saharan Africa 4 0
North America 4 0
Central America 5 0
South America 2 1
Australia 2 0
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Biogeography and Long-Run Development
Olsson and Hibbs (2000) report that countries with favorable initial biogeographic conditions made an early transition to sedentary agriculture, which gave them a head start over other regions in terms of technological advancement and thus yielded wide disparities in economic development across the world.
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Geography and Income
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Location & Growth
Countries that lie in the tropics are poorer compared to other regions of the world. The average income of tropical countries is $3326, and that of temperate countries is $14828 (Gallup and Sachs 1999)
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GDP Density
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Distance and Growth
Coastal regions have higher income than landlocked regions. The average income of landlocked region ($1771) is much smaller then the average income of non-European coastal economy ($5567) (Gallup and Sachs 1999).
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Malaria Risk
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Malaria & Growth
Malaria intensive countries are on average poorer (average income $1526) than countries without malaria (average income $8268)
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Evidence
Agriculture productivity in the tropics is lower than that in the temperate areas (Gallup 1998)Tropical countries share a higher burden of disease, which lowers their per capita incomes by almost 33% (Gallup and Sachs 2000)Landlocked countries face higher cost of transportation that lowers their growth rate (Radelet and Sachs 1998).
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Institutions
“Public system of rules that specify certain actions as permissible, other as forbidden, and provide for certain penalties and defenses when violations occur” (Rawls)
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Institutions and Markets
Markets do not exist in vacuum. They are supported by a complex web of institutional infrastructure (Grief 2005)
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The Neoclassical Theory of Exchange
markets are competitiveproperty rights are perfectly defined and costlessly enforced,information is perfect and parties to exchange have mental abilities to process this information, governments are neutral, and tastes are unchanging (North 1978: 964).
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Impersonal Exchange
It misconstrues the nature of human coordination and cooperation. Assumes cooperative behavior that can not be taken for granted
Village level exchange
Impersonal exchange
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Institutions and Human Behavior
Limited Information
Bounded Rationality
Need to develop regularized pattern of human interactions called institutions
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Transaction Cost
Transaction costs are positive
Transaction costs specifically consist of cost of measurement, and the cost of enforcement.
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Transaction Cost
Measurement costs are cost of measuring the valuable attributes of what is being exchanged
Enforcement costs are the cost of protecting rights and policing and enforcing agreements
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Outcomes are uncertain under impersonal exchange
Second, information is not perfect and human beings have limited capacity to analyze that
Third, transaction costs are positive.
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Institutions and Exchange
Institutions are needed for an exchange to take place and as such, they affect the performance of the economy by their effect on the cost of exchange
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Institutions and Income
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GDP Per Capita in North & South Korea, 1950-1998
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Evolution of Per Capita Income in Asia and Western Off-shoots
Asia vs Western Offshoots
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Industrial Production Per Capita in Former European Colonies
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Urbanization in 1500 & Current Income in Former European Colonies
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Urbanization in 1500 and Current Institutions
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Urbanization in 1500 & Current Income in Non-Colonies
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Disease Environment and Institutions
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Barro (1991, 1997), Knack and Keefer (1995), Hall and Jones (1999)
Acemogle, Johnson, and Robinson (2001)
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Their estimates suggested that institutions explained approximately three-quarter of the income per capita differences in former colonies, and once institutions were controlled for, measures of geography (distance from equator, continental dummies) did not cause income
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Easterly and Levine (2002) test the “crop theory” of institutional development. They test competing hypotheses about “deeper determinants” of income and report that resource endowments affect income indirectly via institutions but do not have a direct effect on income.
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Rodrik, Subramanian, and Trebbi (2002) test the ‘germs theory’ of institutional development due to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2001). The results of their study also confirm that ‘endowment’ do not explain income and hence establish the ‘primacy’ of institutions over geography
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Institutions matter. Existence and enforcement of property rights for a broad cross section of people; enforcement of contracts; rule of law, so that powerful elites are constrained from expropriating the property of other less powerful sections of the society, impartial and speedy dispensation of justice, honest and efficient governments are conditions that are necessary for protecting fruits of entrepreneurship without which development cannot proceed.
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If Pakistan can improve the protection of private property against expropriation to the level of Singapore, its per capita income would increase manifolds nearing income levels in Singapore
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Recognizing the importance of institutions in economic development … is the first step toward significant progress in jump-starting rapid growth in many areas of the world today
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Income
Factor Endowment Productivity
Per Capita GDP Growth = Capital Deepening + Human Capital
Accumulation + Productivity Growth
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Deeper Determinants of Growth
Income
Factor Endowment Productivity
Institutions Integration
Geography