Structural Change and Economic Growth

Structural Change and Economic Growth
Author: Luigi L. Pasinetti
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1981-04-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521236072

This book presents an original theoretical treatment of the problems of maintaining full employment in a multisector economic system

Geography, Structural Change and Economic Development

Geography, Structural Change and Economic Development
Author: Neri Salvadori
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781007756

The authors in this book regard the process of economic expansion as a non-homogeneous and multifaceted phenomenon which has deeply affected human welfare, and cultural, social and political change. The book is a bridge between the theorists (Rosenstein-Rodan, Lewis, Myrdal, and Hirschmann) who in the post-war period analyzed regional inequalities, structural change and dualism, and the modern literature on economic growth. The latter has emphasized the existence of multiple equilibria, bifurcations and various types of dynamic complexity, and clarified the conditions for the emergence of phenomena such as cumulative causation, path dependence and hysteresis. These are the typical ingredients of structural change, economic development or underdevelopment.

Growth and Structural Transformation

Growth and Structural Transformation
Author: Kwang Suk Kim
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1684172195

This study provides a comprehensive overview of Korea’s macroeconomic growth and structural change since World War II, and traces some of the roots of development to the colonial period. The authors explore in detail colonial development, changing national income patterns, relative price shifts, sources of aggregate growth, and sources of sectoral structural change, comparing them with other countries.

Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation

Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation
Author: Lukas Schlogl
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2020-01-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030301311

This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ‘robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but, rather than causing mass unemployment, new technologies are more likely to lead to stagnant wages and premature deindustrialization. The book illuminates the debate on the impact of automation upon economic development, in particular issues of poverty, inequality and work. It highlights public policy responses and strategies–ranging from containment to coping mechanisms—to confront the effects of automation.

New Structural Economics

New Structural Economics
Author: Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821389572

This book provides an innovative framework to analyze the process of industrial upgrading and diversification, a key feature of economic development. Based on this framework, it provides concrete advice to development practitioners and policy makers on how to unleash a country's growth potential.

New Perspectives on Structural Change

New Perspectives on Structural Change
Author: Ludovico Alcorta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 743
Release: 2021
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198850115

Here is a comprehensive edited volume that outlines the historical roots and state-of-the-art debates on the role of structural change in the process of economic development, including both orthodox and heterodox perspectives and contributions from prominent scholars in this field.

China's Economic Development

China's Economic Development
Author: Chu-yuan Cheng
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2019-03-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429708246

How has the government of the PRC transformed traditional economic institutions into a socialist, central-planning system? What has been the impact of this transformation on China's economic growth? What is the essence of the Chinese development model and how successfully has it functioned during the past three decades? What are the prospects for t

The Future of the World Economy

The Future of the World Economy
Author: Wilhelm Krelle
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3662025868

Economic growth and structural change - the future of the world economy - is analysed in this book. Conditional forecasts are given for the economic development of the most important world market countries till the year 2000. The driving forces of economic growth are identified and forecasted, in connection with collaborating scholars in most of these countries and with international organizations. This information is used in solving a coherent world model. The model consists of linked growth models for each country (or groups of countries). The solutions show that the inequality in international income distribution will further increase and that the CMEA and OECD countries will approximately keep their relative positions, with some changes within these groups. Structural change is also analysed. Additionally separate forecasts prepared by each collaborating country group are given and may be compared with the forecasts by the world model. The book closes with chapters on special features of the future economic development: on the international debt problem, on long waves, on structural change in the world trade, on the emergence of service economics and on the comparison of GDP and NMP national accounting.

Structural Transformation and Economic Development

Structural Transformation and Economic Development
Author: Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317199596

This book examines long-term structural changes and the broad impact on economic development in regional comparative perspectives. The book analyzes data across Africa, Asia and Latin America. It looks at key variables of productivity growth, industrialization, poverty, urbanization, and employment. This book is concerned with understanding structural change dynamics and how it affects job creation, living standards, and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefits majority of citizens. With empirical evidence from a selected number of developing countries including China, India, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa, the book attempts to present the considerable structural changes of these countries over the last few decades. It highlights that growth without the expected job creation is one of the distinct features of growth in emerging and developing countries. It suggests that countries may well record economic growth, whether through within sector productivity increase or through structural change, but this may not necessarily lead to employment, an important concern for long-term development.

New Structural Economics

New Structural Economics
Author: Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2012-01-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821389556

Economic development is a process of continuous technological innovation and structural transformation. Development thinking is inherently tied to the quest for sustainable growth strategies. This book provides a neoclassical approach for studying the determinants of economic structure and its transformation and draws new insights for development policy. The market is the basic mechanism for effective resource allocation at each level of development. However, economic development as a dynamic process entails structural changes, including industrial upgrading and diversification and corresponding improvements in hard and soft infrastructure. Such upgrading and improvements require coordination and go hand in hand with large externalities to firms' transaction costs and returns to capital investment. Thus, in addition to an effective market mechanism, the government should play an active role in facilitating structural changes. The book provides empirical evidence in support of this framework as well as concrete advice to development practitioners.