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Diverse Development Paths and Structural Transformation in the Escape from Poverty - Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 - 284p

Part 1: Structural Transformation and Catching Up
1. Diversity of Development Paths and Structural Transformation in Historical Perspective: An Introduction
2. Structural Change and Catching Up: The Relative Small Country Advantage
3. The Latecomer Advantages and Disadvantages: A New Structural Economics Perspective
4. The Role of Agriculture in Catching Up: A Gerschenkronian Perspective

Part 2: Diversity in Development
5. Misinterpreting the East Asian Miracles: A Gerschenkronian perspective on substitution and advantages of backwardness in the industrialization of Eastern Asia
6. Southeast Asia: The Half-Way Miracles?
7. Catching Up: Now and Then: Has Latin America Changed Tracks?
8. Economic Backwardness and Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964-2014
9. Is Africa too Late for 'Late Development'? Gerschenkron South of the Sahara
10. Is Sub-Saharan Africa Finally Catching Up?
11. Relative Economic Backwardness and Catching up: Lessons from History, Implications for Development Thinking

ISBN: 9780198803706

Subjects--Personal Names:
Economic Development
Poverty

Dewey Class. No.: 338.9 / AND