Background: There is special role of money in the economy due to its astonishing importance as change in the amount of it can have a significant effect on the major macroeconomic variables. Money supply is generally considered as policy-determined phenomenon. Like in all the nations,...

Kaldor's first law of growth posits a positive causal relation between the growth of manufacturing output and the growth of GDP due to static and dynamic returns to scale in manufacturing and rising productivity outside the manufacturing sector as resources are transferred from diminishing...

The present study aims to verify whether the balance-of-payments constrained growth approach is suitable for explaining the Portuguese growth performance during the last decades. For that, we adopt "Thirlwall's Law" that predicts actual growth by the ratio of the exports growth relative to the...

The article characterises the link between the foreign sector and growth in Colombia 1952-2000. Thirlwall's law was tested and found to be valid for this period. There was a long-term relationship between GDP and export growth, income and price elasticity of demand for imports and the real...

Based on the balance-of-payments constrained economic growth model, the empirical validity of the simple rule in Colombia in the 1925-2000 period is tested. Since a stable long-term relationship or cointegration vector is not found between GDP and exports for this period, the simplifying...

This paper examines Nigeria's long run growth path using the externally and internally constrained version of Thirlwall's growth model from 1982 to 2015. The present study modifies the SCA-BOPCG to take into account the effects the foreign contents in exports growth and the domestic investment....

Many different approaches have addressed the issue of why were some developing countries able to reduce the income gap with developed economies while others were not. However, few approaches take into account the process of structural change. This paper reviews the theoretical basis of the...

This paper develops the seminal ideas of Nicholas Kaldor into a Centre-Periphery framework of the world economy where the Centre faces the problem of surplus capacity and effective demand and the Periphery faces a capacity constraint. In such a framework, Harrod-type 'foreign trade multiplier'...

This paper deepens the analysis of the income elasticities of import and export demand in relation to the real exchange rate (RER) within a balance of payments constrained growth framework. It identifies how the RER can affect these elasticities and explores the resulting implications. A key...