There are other benefits besides increased size. A poor country merging with a rich one stands to gain from access to improved growth fundamentals. However, there can be negative effects on the rich country. If there is full integration — the borders are dropped and the two countries are allowed to share all their fundamentals — the richer country is likely to see its human capital, savings rate, and average salary drop.
It might also have to contend with worse infrastructure, a higher fertility rate, and a larger, more bureaucratic government. The net effect of borders depends both on the size of the merged country and on preexisting levels of income. The larger the country, the less likely it is to be open to trade with other nations.
Therefore, if two countries merge, the resulting entity is less likely to be open to trade with other countries, chipping away at the benefits from the size effect. The researchers found, however, that creating a really large new nation may outweigh other factors. If India, with a population of about 1billion, and Pakistan, with a population of about million, merged,both countries would benefit, even though Pakistan is poorer than India, says Wacziarg. I thought outside factors like human capital would swamp the size effect.
Fully integrating the United States and Mexico would have reduced U. A merger between the United States and Canada would have produced a. India would have benefited from merging with Pakistan and Sri Lanka but not with Bangladesh, which is significantly poorer than India. Brazil would have benefited from merging with most of its neighbors. If France and Germany had merged, both would have benefited as well.
Wacziarg acknowledges nations have plenty of non-economic reasons motto merge. Studying border changes is not just an academic exercise. More information. Supplementary notes. Other statistics on the topic.
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