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India’s economic development since independence: An interpretative surveyWhen India became a republic in 1950, the economy was primarily agrarian, with three-fifths of output originating from agriculture...
Economic growth Structural change Economic policyJournal Article
A macro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin AmericaPart of Journal Special Issue Women’s Work
Gender equality Latin America MacroeconomicsBook Chapter
Leapfrogging into the unknown: The future of structural change in the developing worldFrom the book: The developer’s dilemma
Technological change Structural change EmploymentWorking Paper
Industrialization in developing countries: is it related to poverty reduction?This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth...
Poverty Production GrowthWorking Paper
A macro–micro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin AmericaLatin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality...
Gender equality Latin America MacroeconomicsWorking Paper
Leapfrogging into the unknown: The future of structural change in the developing worldThis paper traces a set of major trends and future scenarios in global structural change...
Technological change Structural change EmploymentWorking Paper
Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics: Evidence from a half-century analysisThis paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity...
MENA Productivity SkillsBook Chapter
Uganda’s oil: How much, when, and how will it be governed?From the book: Mining for Change
Extractives Extractive industries Structural changeWorkshop
Authors' workshop: The developer’s dilemma: structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth
Book Chapter
Agriculture, the Rural Sector, and DevelopmentFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Agricultural productivity Structural change Rural developmentProject
The changing nature of work and inequality
Theme: Transforming societies
Inequality Earnings inequality Structural changeBlog
Can natural resources jump-start industrialization?
At the end of last year, I filmed a lecture that will be part of a massive open online course (MOOC) on industrialization in Africa...
Industrialization Structural change Employment and IndustryPolicy Brief
Inequality dynamics in China: Income growth for the poor, but more for the richIn the late 1970s, China embarked on a major programme of economic transition and reform...
Welfare policy Social protection Income inequalityBlog
Rethinking African industrialization on another Africa Industrialization Day This week I attended the 28 th Africa Industrialization Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Even sympathetic readers may reasonably ask, why hold another African Industrialization Day at all?...
Industrialization Structural change Industrial policyWorking Paper
Uganda’s oil: How much, when, and how will it be governed?We study Uganda’s journey to become a petroleum producer and provide estimates regarding the size and timing of the oil revenues to be expected...
Extractives Extractive industries Structural changeWorking Paper
Inequality in China: Development, transition, and policyIn this paper we describe the major trends in China’s income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the outcome of four interleaved stories...
China Inequality Development Economics