Autori: Sanjay Reddy and Camelia Minoiu

Editorial: Routledge, Journal of Development Studies, 45, p.1-23, 2009.

Rezumat:

This paper examines the phenomenon of real-income stagnation (in which real income growth is negligible or negative for a sizable uninterrupted sequence of years). It analyzes data for four decades from a large cross-section of countries. Real income
stagnation is a conceptually distinct phenomenon from low average growth and other features of the growth sequence that have been held to be of interest in the literature. We find that real income stagnation has affected a significant number of countries (103 out of 168), and resulted in substantial income loss. Countries that suffered spells of real income
stagnation were more likely to be poor, in Latin America or sub-Saharan Africa, conflict ridden and dependent on primary commodity exports. Stagnation is also very likely to
persist over time. Countries that were afflicted with stagnation in the 1960s had a likelihood of seventy-five percent of also being afflicted with stagnation in the 1990s.

Cuvinte cheie: stagnatia veniturilor, tipare de crestere economica // real income stagnation, patterns of economic growth

URL: http://www.camelia-minoiu.com/stagnation.pdf