Re: Trade and Growth

["Alan G. Isaac" <aisaac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 May 2001, P. Nagarajan wrote:
> Finally , even if you assume trade promotes growth , there is no
> automatic linkage between economic growth and economic development.
> After all , several countries have registered  economic growth with
> sharply deteriorating  human welfare for a vast majority of the
> population .


I would like an example where this has been true for more than
a decade or two.  (I.e., no time at all, from the point of view
of analyzing the welfare effects of growth.)
Thanks,
Alan Isaac