资源禀赋、干中学效应与经济增长

Resource Endowment,Effect of Learning in Doing and Economic Growth

丰裕的资源往往被认为是发展经济的有利条件,但最近的研究表明,20世纪中后期以来,资源丰裕程度与经济发展呈现负相关关系。针对这一违反常理的现象,笔者从干中学的角度予以解释,证明了资源丰裕国家的产业往往集中在干中学效应较小的资源部门,这是其经济发展缓慢的主要原因。因此,一个国家或地区不应当仅仅依照要素禀赋学说被动地确定自己的分工,而应当主动发展那些干中学效应较大的产业。

Abundant resources are always considered to be favorable conditions for economic development, but recent research demonstrates that the correlation between resource abundance and economic growth has been negative since the middle and late 1900s. In view of this abnormal phenomenon, the author gives an explanation from the perspective of learning in doing and proves that the industries in the countries with abundant resources often concentrate on the resource sectors in which the effect of learning in doing is small ,which is the main reason that their economy develops slowly. Accordingly, a country or area should not determine its division of work only according to the factor endowment theory, but should develop those industries in which the effect of learning in doing is great.