To understand the growth effects of currency undervaluation we estimate its impact on the different components of GDP. We find that, for developing countries, undervaluation does not affect the tradable sector, but does lead to greater domestic savings and investment, as well as employment.

There has been intensive research in the literature of macroeconomics examining the nexus between finance, capital movements, and economic growth to explore the impact of each variable on other variables in the system. One might claim that these researches, needless to say, are seminal and have...