Absorbing a windfall of foreign exchange: Dutch disease dymanics

The permanent income rule is seldom the optimal response to a windfall of foreign exchange, such as that from a resource discovery. Absorptive capacity constraints require domestic investment, and investment in structures requires non-traded inputs the supply of which is constrained by the initial c...

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Main Authors: Van der Ploeg, R, Venables, A
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2010

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