When a country experiences economic growth, its production capacity increases, i.e., its production of exportable and importable increases. If the increase of both goods leads to more export and less import, and lower welfare level, growth is immiserizing. This paper proves that Jagdish...

Based on a neoclassical growth model for open low income economies this paper shows that development strategies, which rely on net borrowing abroad lead to a position of sustainable foreign indebtedness (provided that all capital imports are used for investment financing), but turn out to be...