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WIDER Studies in Development Economics

The Developer's Dilemma

Structural Transformation, Inequality Dynamics, and Inclusive Growth

The Developer's Dilemma

WIDER Studies in Development Economics

The Developer's Dilemma

Structural Transformation, Inequality Dynamics, and Inclusive Growth

WIDER Studies in Development Economics: The Developer's Dilemma

 

Developing countries seek broad-based, inclusive economic development that raises the income of all, especially the poor. The Developer's Dilemma explores the tension between this aim and the hypothesis that economic development tends to put upward pressure on income inequality, at least initially and in the absence of countervailing policies.


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Beschrijving WIDER Studies in Development Economics: The Developer's Dilemma

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Developing countries seek economic development which is broad-based or inclusive in the sense that it raises the income of all, especially the poor. Yet this is at odds with Simon Kuznets' hypothesis that economic development tends to put upward pressure on income inequality, at least initially and in the absence of countervailing policies. The Developer's Dilemma explores this 'Kuznetsian tension' between structural transformation and income inequality.

The book asks: what are the varieties of structural transformation that have been experienced in developing countries? What inequality dynamics are associated with each variety of structural transformation? And what policies have been utilized to manage trade-offs between structural transformation, income inequality, and inclusive growth? Across nine country cases written by academics across the Global South, this book answers these questions using a comparative case study approach with a common analytical framework and a set of common datasets. The intended intellectual contribution of the book is to provide a comparative analysis of the relationship between structural transformation, income inequality, and inclusive growth; to do so empirically at a regional and national level, and to draw conclusions about the varieties of structural transformation, their inequality dynamics, and the policies that have been employed to mediate the developer's dilemma.


ISBN
9780192855299
Pagina's
326
Verschenen
Serie
WIDER Studies in Development Economics
NUR
781
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

Algemene economie