ECON1132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Foreign Portfolio Investment, Foreign Direct Investment, Diminishing Returns

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You end up investing more in capital. I= investment = change in capital stock. If you"re a poor country and you invest too much your people could starve, but it could cause long run growth. Poor countries that rapidly increases capital stock the growth won"t last. As you increase your capital stock you will get less and less benefit on output (it will increase by less. If you have fewer resources put to consumption goods you can make capital goods, but as you increase in productivity you have diminishing returns (less benefits as the q of capital goods increases) 2 workers k/l is low (no modern machines) Productivity increases, but less so because they don"t have anyone to drive it. More tractors you buy less increase to productivity. Poor countries growth is much larger than rich countries growth because adding more k goods doesn"t increase productivity as much as in the poor countries.

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