The Rise of the Robot Reserve Army: Working Hard or Hardly Working?
The rise of a new global ‘robot reserve army’ will have profound effects on developing countries but will it mean people will be working hard […]
Developer’s Dilemma
Does deindustrialisation lead inequality to rise?
This week ESRC GPID Director, Andy Sumner continues the set of blogs on deindustrialisation and developing countries. In past weeks we’ve discussed varieties of deindustrialisation and drivers. This week […]
How did South East Asia counterintuitively deal with the distributional tensions that rapid change often entails?
This week ESRC GPID Director, Andy Sumner, continues the set of blogs on structural transformation and inclusive growth in South East Asia. Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand achieved structural […]
What does South East Asia teach us about structural transformation and what would Arthur Lewis have said about it?
This week, ESRC GPID Director, Andy Sumner, continues the discussion on structural transformation and inclusive growth in South East Asia. We asked last week what can the […]
What can South East Asia tell us about Structural Transformation and Inequality Dynamics?
This week’s blog is the first of a set of posts on the ‘developer’s dilemma’ in South East Asia from ESRC GPID Director, Andy Sumner. […]
Three schools of economic development theory: Where does the ‘developer’s dilemma’ fit?
In the last two blogs we discussed the Lewis model of economic development, its contemporary relevance and its thinking on inequality and ‘trickle along economics’. The Lewis model is […]
What is ‘structural transformation’ and why does it matter?
Most workers in pre-industrial Europe once pursued agricultural work. Later the economy shifted to manufacturing jobs and then to the service sector. In short, economic […]
The future of employment: back in fashion?
A range of views from across the UN, the World Bank and the IMF raise some big questions for the future of employment and its […]
Does structural change lead to rising inequality?
How does structural transformation affect economic inequality? And what does it do to poverty? Many developing countries have seen a huge reallocation of labour from […]
Is rising inequality part of a ‘developer’s dilemma’?
Two goals of development are economic development and inclusive growth. The first, economic development, requires ‘structural transformation’ meaning shifts in economic activity towards higher productivity. […]
