Affiliation:
1. Department of Economics, State University of Maringá Maringá Paraná Brazil
2. Department of Economics and International Relations Federal University of Santa Catarina Florianópolis Brazil
Abstract
AbstractThis study explores the interaction between private and public physical capital accumulation within a Lewis development framework, in which public infrastructure is subject to congestion. The model shows that when both levels of capital are relatively low, a crowding‐out of private investment creates the necessary conditions for the emergence of a development trap, from which a surplus labor economy, if left to the free play of its structural forces, may never escape. Once caught in such a trap, the economy can potentially be released through a big push of public or private capital or a sufficiently balanced combination of both.
Subject
Economics and Econometrics