Why Foreign Savings Fail to Cause Growth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12155366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira (0000-0001-8679-0557, Fundação Getulio Vargas, corresponding author), Paulo Gala (Fundação Getulio Vargas) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 58-76 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-1916 • E-ISSN: 1558-0970 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2753/ijp0891-1916380304 |
| OpenAlex | W2045029022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 14 |
The present paper is a formalization of the critique of the growth with foreign savings strategy that one of its authors has been working on in recent years. Although medium income countries are capital poor, current account deficits (foreign savings), financed either by loans or by foreign direct investments, will not usually increase the rate of capital accumulation or will have little impact on it in so far as current account deficits will be associated with appreciated exchange rates, that artificially increase real wages and salaries and high consumption levels. In consequence, the rate of substitution of foreign savings for domestic savings will be relatively high, and the country gets indebted not to invest and grow but to consume. Only when there are large investment opportunities, stimulated by a sizeable difference between the expected profit rate and the long term interest rate, the marginal propensity to consume will come down enough so that the additional income originating from foreign capital flows will be used for investment rather than for consumption. In this special case, the rate of substitution of foreign for domestic savings tend to be small and foreign savings will contribute positively to growth
Capital (architecture · Consumption (sociology · Current account · Economics · Exchange rate · Foreign direct investment · Interest rate · International economics · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Marginal propensity to consume · Microeconomics · Monetary economics · Profit (economics · Economic Growth and Productivity · Economic theories and models · Economic Theory and Policy
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |