Trade Reform, Capital Mobility, and Efficiency Wage in a Harris-Todaro Economy
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The Harris-Todaro Model
Excerpt] In terms of the current discussion of pro-poor economic growth, the Harris-Todaro model and other multi-sector labor market models can help policy-makers avoid two mistakes. One is to assume that development efforts should necessarily be channeled to the sectors where the poor are. The other is to assume that efforts should necessarily be focused on getting the poor out of the sectors ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Pakistan Development Review
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0030-9729
DOI: 10.30541/v46i2pp.163-174