Harrod-Domar Growth Model

A model for what creates economic growth. According to Harrod-Domar, growth equals a country's savings rate multiplied by the marginal product of capital less depreciation. Essentially, high savings generates growth because savings are eventually invested. The Harrod-Domar model has been used to explain lack of development in some parts of the world: because there is little capital to be saved, there is less capital to invest. Critics, however, contend that the model confuses growth and development (which are distinct) and that it can encourage reckless borrowing to spur development.

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On the other hand the Harrod-Domar Growth model stresses the importance of 'capital accumulation'.

Debt burden

Another model which reflected gap theory was the Harrod-Domar growth model [Harrod (1948); Domar (1947)].

Impact of Project and Programme Aid on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Analysis

Harrod-Domar growth model postulates that there is excess supply of labor in developing economies which reduces the productivity of capital.

Interrelationship between Foreign Aid, Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in Pakistan: An Econometric Analysis

Economic mechanism by which more investment leads to more growth can be described in terms of the Harrod-Domar growth model, today often referred to as the AK model based on a linear production function.

The impact of production factors and economic structures on economic development/Gamybos veiksniu ir ekonomikos strukturu itaka ekonominiam vystymuisi

As an extension of the Harrod-Domar growth model, the dual-gap theory has highlighted the motivation for the introduction of external debt in a growth model.

Revisiting the role of external debt in economic growth of developing countries

Many growth models, like Harrod-Domar growth model, imply that high saving economies grow faster, and as in the Solow model, as one moves towards a steady state, saving will cause growth (Solow, 1956).

Is saving generating economic growth in Lebanon?

In other words, one may say that in Harrod-Domar Growth Model, investment in fixed capital or capital-output ratio provides us with the demand and supply sides of the question, the solution of which may yield the required rate of growth.

Financial management appraisal of U.S. administration non-keynesian approach to tackle recession: overemphasis on employment of high skilled-cum-aged labour (forming minority) at the expense of majority unskilled labour does not augur well for economic recovery

Following Grobar and Gnanaselvam (1993), a simple Harrod-Domar growth model is used to estimate the effect of the recent increase in defense spending on economic growth.

Nepal's civil war and its economic costs

While the Harrod-Domar growth model perceived the capital-output ratio, v, as a constant in the warranted growth expression, s/v, the dual theory considers it as a variable.

Paul Samuelson and the dual Pasinetti theory

The origin of empirical analysis between aid and growth could be traced back, as far as the Harrod-Domar growth model. The Harrod-Domar model developed in the 1930s suggests savings provide the funds, which are borrowed for investment purposes.

Foreign aid policy and its growth effect in Nepal

The theoretical rationale was embodied in the well known Harrod-Domar growth model, in which employment rises with increasing capital stock and the chief policy instrument is a fiscal strategy to raise domestic savings.