Basics, non-basics, money and credit: a development perspective

Abstract

We approach the developing economy through an agriculture/industry and basics/ non-basics demarcation. A Classical-Keynesian rationale for the high interest rates in the country and low interest rates in the town is provided. The institutional requirement is for a strongly inequality-reducing state, intervening in the financing and production of basics and, correspondingly, setting in place disincentives to the production of non-basics.