The Savings Trap and Economic Take-Off /

We develop an overlapping generations model of a developing economy in which 'culture' and technology interact to determine savings, investment and growth. Investment is assumed to involve intermediation or other costs which may, in each period, result in either of two stable equilibria fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghosh, Atish
Other Authors: Asilis, Carlos
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1992.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1992/091
Online Access:Full text available on IMF