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Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, employment rent seeking and economic growth.

By: Gelb, A.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Working papers series; no. 133. Publisher: Washington : World Bank, 1988Subject(s): Employment | Employment -- Public sector -- Economic growth. -- Employment -- Public sector -- Economic growth. -- Employment -- Public sector -- Economic growthSummary: Governments in developing countries should and do provide valuable goods and services, but resources are wasted when public revenues support unprodutive employees at the expense of production workers. In the inverse of the Lewis model, the extent of surplus labour increase, rather than diminishes, overtime.
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Governments in developing countries should and do provide valuable goods and services, but resources are wasted when public revenues support unprodutive employees at the expense of production workers. In the inverse of the Lewis model, the extent of surplus labour increase, rather than diminishes, overtime.

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