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Kunal Sen studies the different paths through which economies shift employment from agriculture into manufacturing and services. Rather than treating structural transformation as one uniform process, he compares its patterns across developing countries and asks why their experiences diverge.
The analysis brings classical and neoclassical explanations into conversation with evidence from the Economic Transformation Database. Descriptive comparisons and econometric investigation examine the determinants of change, including the conditions that influence where workers move and how productive their new activities become. This connects sectoral employment patterns with broader questions about economic development.
Sen then considers the consequences of these transformations, including their relationship with inequality. The book’s comparative framework shows why a movement out of agriculture can take very different forms and produce different outcomes. Its tables, figures and country comparisons support a detailed account of how the composition of economic activity changes over time.
Kunal Sen. Varieties of Structural Transformation: Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences. Cambridge University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009449939. Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; the unchanged original edition and its required notices are retained.
Copyright UNU-WIDER 2023. The unchanged original edition is distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/.