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Inclusive growth without structural transformation?: The case of BrazilThrough rapid urbanization, Brazil—previously a country where most workers were in the agricultural sector—went through a strong process of structural transformation that lasted almost four decades until economic liberalization at the beg...
Brazil import substitution Inclusive growthWorking Paper
Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in South AfricaThis paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the present day...
Structural transformation Inclusive growth South AfricaWorking Paper
Benign growth: Structural transformation and inclusive growth in ThailandBetween 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined...
Inclusive growth Inequality Poverty reductionWorking Paper
Structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growth in BangladeshThe Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of agriculture in GDP has declined, while the significance of industry and service sectors has increased...
Bangladesh Structural transformation Inclusive growthWorking Paper
Structural transformation and inclusive growth in GhanaThis study examines the structural transformation–inclusive growth nexus for Ghana...
Ghana Inclusive growth Structural transformationWorking Paper
The developer’s dilemma: A survey of structural transformation and inequality dynamicsThis paper discusses the ‘developer’s dilemma’—a tension emerging from the fact that developing countries are simultaneously seeking structural transformation and broad-based growth to raise incomes of the poor...
Income inequality Structural transformation Economic developmentWorking Paper
Structural transformation and inclusive growth: Kuznets’ ‘developer’s dilemma’ in IndonesiaWe focus on special characteristics of the manufacturing sector, in terms of employment generation and productivity growth, that enable the rapid, resilient economic catch-up of developing countries...
Structural transformation Inclusive growth IndonesiaWorking Paper
Kuznets’ tension in India: Two episodesDeveloping countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the ‘developer’s dilemma’...
developer's dilemma India InequalityJournal Article
Was Kuznets Right?: New Evidence on the Relationship between Structural Transformation and InequalityWe examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960–2012...
Structural transformation Inequality KuznetsAnnual Lecture
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Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth: The case of ChileThis paper describes the structural transformations that Chile has experienced in the last 50 years and how they have contributed—or not—to inclusive growth and genuine economic modernization from a historical perspective...
Chile deindustrialization Inclusive growthWorking Paper
Roads and jobs in EthiopiaWe look at how improving roads can affect jobs and structural transformation...
Ethiopia Roads Structural transformationWorking Paper
Structural transformation, openness, and productivity growth in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper examines the connections of structural change and economic openness to labour productivity growth using a panel data set of 41 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1991–2015...
Sub-Saharan Africa Structural transformation Labour productivityWorking Paper
Was Kuznets right?: New evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequalityWe examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960–2012...
Structural transformation Inequality KuznetsBlog
Reflections on the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics
The award of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics to Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT, and Michael Kremer of Harvard University, has led to a flurry of blogs and op-ed pieces ...
Nobel Prize Development Economics Structural transformationSeminar
Rekha Ravindran on the relationship between structural transformation and income inequalityRekha Ravindran will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 28 October. Abstract - The relationship between structural transformation and income inequality in developing economies Though industrialization is postulated as the traditional way out of...