In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of
development's major issues. During the early phases of economic development, there are …

The Harris-Todaro hypothesis replaces the equality of wages by the equality of
'expected'wages as the basic equilibrium condition in a segmented but homogeneous …

Many developing nations frequently are reluctant to liberalize their domestic markets and/or
their trade regimes. The effect on the distribution of income is a common rationale for …

In some branches of the subject notably development economics..., the neglect of reality has
compounded the profusion of crude lapses to bring, about a situation so unsatisfactory that …

In this paper, we report a mode of the Harris-Todaro variety in which the labor force is
composed of distinct and easily identifiable ethnic groups and in which capital is …

As a model builder, I feel comfortable in analyzing economic development through the
construction and use of 2-gap mathematical-statistical models. This serves as a paradigm for …

Composite photography and statistical prejudice: Levy-Peart and Marshall on the theorist and
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The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of trade reform on unemployment
and social welfare in a Harris-Todaro (1970) economy with efficiency wage and capital …

In this paper, we present a stylized model for the study of development policy in a less
developed country with several (rural) provinces, each with its own local economy, and a …

We examine the issue of technical assistance versus brain drain repatriation as alternative
strategies for transferring scarce skills to a skill‐poor economy. Technical assistance relies …