NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Growth, Technological Progress, and Trade

Elhanan Helpman

NBER Working Paper No. 2592 (Also Reprint No. r1145)*
Issued in March 1989
NBER Program(s):   ITI    IFM

Recent developments in the theory of economic growth and dynamic trade theory are reviewed and interpreted. These include growth based on economies of scale, trade with product development, and product cycles. It is argued that there is need for more work in this area in order to understand the relationship between trade and growth.

*Published: Empirica 1 `88 - Austrian Economic Papers, pp. 5-25, (1988).

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