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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.
List of contents
- Preface
- 1: Adam Szirmai and Neil Foster-McGregor: An Introduction to New Perspectives on Structural Change
- Part 1: Theoretical Contributions
- 2: Nicola Cantore and Ludovico Alcorta: Structuralists' Contribution to Development Thinking: Old, New, and Unresolved Issues
- 3: Gabriel Porcile: Latin-American Structuralism and Neo-Structuralism
- 4: Codrina Rada: Structure and Structural Change in Macroeconomic Theory
- 5: Ricardo Araujo and Joanilio Teixeira: Structural Change and the Role of Demand
- 6: John Weiss and Hossein Jalilian: Investment, Profitability, and Structural Change
- 7: Jan Fagerberg and Bart Verspagen: Technological Revolutions, Structural Change, and Catching Up
- 8: Alessio Moro and Carlo Valdes: Structural Change in General Equilibrium Thinking
- 9: Ron Boschma: The Geographical Dimension of Structural Change
- 10: Clovis Freire: Economic Complexity Perspectives on Structural Change
- Part 2: Empirical Trends
- 11: Alejandro Lavopa and Adam Szirmai: Structural Change as a Modernization Process
- 12: Nobuya Haraguchi and Jürgen Amann: Sectoral Dynamics
- 13: Solomon Owusu, Adam Szirmai, and Neil Foster-McGregor: The Rise of the Service Sector in the Global Economy
- 14: Önder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen: Patterns of Diversification and Specialization in International Trade
- 15: Marcel Timmer and Stefan Pahl: Structural Change in Exports
- Part 3: Drivers of Structural Change
- 16: Alessandro Nuvolari and Emanuele Russo: Technical Progress and Structural Change
- 17: Fiona Tregenna, Kevin Nell, and Chris Callaghan: Determinants of Industrial Development
- 18: Michael Landesmann and Neil Foster-McGregor: Trade Liberalization, Structural Change, and Economic Growth
- 19: Giovanni Dosi and Matteo Tranchero: The Role of Comparative Advantage, Endowments, and Technology in Structural Transformation
- 20: Stephany Griffith-Jones and José Antonio Ocampo: Finance and Structural Change
- 21: Andre Pineli, Rajneesh Narula, and René Belderbos: FDI, Multinationals and Structural Change in Developing Countries
- 22: Keun Lee, Shanika Ramanayake, and Wonkyu Shin: Three Barriers to Structural Changes and Catch-Up by the Latecomers
- Part 4: Socio-Economic Impacts of Structural Change and Policy Perspectives
- 23: Aradhna Aggarwal: How Has Globalisation Affected the Economic Growth, Structural Change and Poverty Reduction Linkages?
- 24: Önder Nomaler, Bart Verspagen, and Adriaan van Zon: Structural Change, Economic Development and the Labour Market
- 25: Marco Vivarelli: Globalisation, Structural Change and Technological Progress In Emerging Economies
- 26: Giovanni Marin and Massimilanio Mazzanti: Structural Change and the Environment
- 27: Jesus Felipe: Structural Transformation, Old and New Industrial Policies, and Implications for Development
- 28: Ha-Joon Chang and Christopher Hope: The Political Economy of Structural Change
About the author
Ludovico Alcorta is Professorial Fellow on "Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development" at UNU-MERIT, School of Business and Economics, University of Maastricht. He has been Director of Industrial Policy, Statistics and Strategic Research at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and is Chief Technical Advisor on Industrial Strategy to the Government of Oman. While at UNIDO he contributed to the preparation of SDGs 8 and 9.
Ludovico's research and publications are in the areas of new technologies, innovation, industrialization and development, including in journals such as World Development, European Journal of Development Research, Research Policy, Oxford Development Papers, Development, Industry and Innovation, Energy Efficiency, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics as well as in China's Economic Research Journal.
Neil Foster-McGregor is a Professor of Globalisation and Innovation at UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands. Prior to this he was Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna (2000-2008) and a Senior Research Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw). Neil obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham in 2001. Neil's research interests include issues of economic growth and development, international trade and globalisation, and innovation and technology transfer.
Bart Verspagen is an economist specialised in the economics of technological change. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Limburg (now called Maastricht University) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from 1984-1988. After that, he obtained a PhD degree from the same university in 1992. During the five years after that, he held a scholarship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He was professor of Economics of Innovation at Eindhoven University of technology. His current workplace is the research institute UNU-MERIT in Maastricht.
Adam Szirmai (UNU-MERIT) was Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT and Professor of Development Economics at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance of Maastricht University. His research focused on technological change, productivity, growth in developing countries.
Summary
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.
