Industrial Targeting and Non-shiftable Capital in the Harris-Todaro Model

This paper shows that, in the 2 × 3 sector-specific capital Harris-Todaro model, capital growth owing to either domestic or foreign investment always enhances the welfare of the country (i.e. non-immiserizing), and this result of non-immiserizing foreign investment holds regardless of initial holdings of foreign capital; the policy of industrial targeting via capital investment is more effective vis-Ã -vis the (neoclassical) 2 × 2 mobile-capital Harris-Todaro model or the Heckscher-Ohlin model; in contrast to the recent generalization by Marjit and Beladi (2003 ), capital growth cannot be immiserizing in the present model, even if it destroys the "envelope theorem." Copyright © 2006 The Authors; Journal compilation © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.