This paper analyzes in a unified framework of a Lewis-Solow growth model the prospects for economic development of low income countries (LIC) as well as the possibility of being caught in a poverty trap and falling behind. By focussing on a technologically backward and stagnating LIC, it is...

"We show how to decentralize constrained efficient allocations that arise from enforcement constraints between sovereign nations.In a pure exchange economy, these allocations can be decentralized with private agents acting competitively and taking as given government default decisions on foreign...