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This book discusses possibilities for, and obstacles to, economic development in lower income countries in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. It examines how lower income countries might 'catch up' and advantages and disadvantages of the lateness of poor countries in the development process.
Martin Andersson is Associate Professor in Economic History at Lund University. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and has been a Marie Curie post-doc at EUI in Florence and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. His research interests include agricultural development and the relation between economic growth, poverty reduction, and distribution of income in the developing world. He is co-editor of Development and Structural Change in Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2003). ; Tobias Axelsson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic History at Lund University. His research is on agricultural transformation processes and colonial origins of inequality. He has been a guest researcher at ISEAS in Singapore and a guest research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden. Dr Axelsson is a co-founder of the Bachelor programme in development studies at Lund University.
Part 1: Structural Transformation and Catching Up; 1 Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson: Diversity of Development Paths and Structural Transformation in Historical Perspective: An Introduction; 2 Lennart Schon: Structural Change and Catching Up: The Relative Small Country Advantage; 3 Justin Yifu Lin: The Latecomer Advantages and Disadvantages: A New Structural Economics Perspective; 4 C. Peter Timmer: The Role of Agriculture in Catching Up: A Gerschenkronian Perspective; Part 2: Diversity in Development; 5 Christer Gunnarsson: Misinterpreting the East Asian Miracles: A Gerschenkronian perspective on substation and advantages of backwardness in the industrialization of Eastern Asia; 6 Anne Booth: Southeast Asia: The Half-Way Miracles?; 7 Luis Bertola: Has Latin America Changed Tracks?; 8 Lee Alston and Bernardo Mueller: Economic Backwardness and Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964-2014; 9 Gareth Austin: Is Africa too Late for 'Late Development'? Gerschenkron South of the Sahara; 10 Erik Thorbecke and Yusi Ouyang: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Finally Catching Up?; 11 Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson: Advantages and Disadvantages of Economic Backwardness: Lessons from History and Implications for Development Thinking
This book discusses possibilities for, and obstacles to, economic development in lower income countries in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. It examines how lower income countries might 'catch up' and advantages and disadvantages of the lateness of poor countries in the development process.
Martin Andersson is Associate Professor in Economic History at Lund University. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and has been a Marie Curie post-doc at EUI in Florence and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. His research interests include agricultural development and the relation between economic growth, poverty reduction, and distribution of income in the developing world. He is co-editor of Development and Structural Change in Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2003). ; Tobias Axelsson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic History at Lund University. His research is on agricultural transformation processes and colonial origins of inequality. He has been a guest researcher at ISEAS in Singapore and a guest research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden. Dr Axelsson is a co-founder of the Bachelor programme in development studies at Lund University.
Part 1: Structural Transformation and Catching Up; 1 Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson: Diversity of Development Paths and Structural Transformation in Historical Perspective: An Introduction; 2 Lennart Schon: Structural Change and Catching Up: The Relative Small Country Advantage; 3 Justin Yifu Lin: The Latecomer Advantages and Disadvantages: A New Structural Economics Perspective; 4 C. Peter Timmer: The Role of Agriculture in Catching Up: A Gerschenkronian Perspective; Part 2: Diversity in Development; 5 Christer Gunnarsson: Misinterpreting the East Asian Miracles: A Gerschenkronian perspective on substation and advantages of backwardness in the industrialization of Eastern Asia; 6 Anne Booth: Southeast Asia: The Half-Way Miracles?; 7 Luis Bertola: Has Latin America Changed Tracks?; 8 Lee Alston and Bernardo Mueller: Economic Backwardness and Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964-2014; 9 Gareth Austin: Is Africa too Late for 'Late Development'? Gerschenkron South of the Sahara; 10 Erik Thorbecke and Yusi Ouyang: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Finally Catching Up?; 11 Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson: Advantages and Disadvantages of Economic Backwardness: Lessons from History and Implications for Development Thinking
Part 1: Structural Transformation and Catching Up
1: Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson: Diversity of Development
Paths and Structural Transformation in Historical Perspective: An
Introduction
2: Lennart Schön: Structural Change and Catching Up: The Relative
Small Country Advantage
3: Justin Yifu Lin: The Latecomer Advantages and Disadvantages: A
New Structural Economics Perspective
4: C. Peter Timmer: The Role of Agriculture in Catching Up: A
Gerschenkronian Perspective
Part 2: Diversity in Development
5: Christer Gunnarsson: Misinterpreting the East Asian Miracles: A
Gerschenkronian perspective on substitution and advantages of
backwardness in the industrialization of Eastern Asia
6: Anne Booth: Southeast Asia: The Half-Way Miracles?
7: Luis Bértola: Catching Up: Now and Then: Has Latin America
Changed Tracks?
8: Lee Alston and Bernardo Mueller: Economic Backwardness and
Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964-2014
9: Gareth Austin: Is Africa too Late for 'Late Development'?
Gerschenkron South of the Sahara
10: Erik Thorbecke and Yusi Ouyang: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Finally
Catching Up?
11: Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson: Relative Economic
Backwardness and Catching up: Lessons from History, Implications
for Development Thinking
Martin Andersson is Associate Professor in Economic History at Lund
University. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and
has been a Marie Curie post-doc at EUI in Florence and a visiting
scholar at UC Berkeley. His research interests include agricultural
development and the relation between economic growth, poverty
reduction, and distribution of income in the developing world. He
is co-editor of Development and Structural Change in
Asia-Pacific
(Routledge, 2003).
Tobias Axelsson is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Economic History at Lund University. His research is on
agricultural transformation processes and colonial origins of
inequality. He has been a guest researcher at ISEAS in Singapore
and a guest research fellow at the International Institute for
Asian Studies, Leiden. Dr Axelsson is a co-founder of the Bachelor
programme in development studies at Lund University.
Convergence, structural change, institutions, capabilities such
keywords form the skeleton of contemporary development theory. This
fascinating book adds concrete, historical flesh to the concepts.
It demonstrates the diversity of development paths and provides
hope of continued economic advancement, even if under different
models than have prevailed to date.
*Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political
Economy, Harvard Kennedy School*
This excellent volume brings together leading scholars with
interests in long term economic dynamics in the borderland between
economic history and development economics to provide a
thought-provoking overview of the patterns of economic development
and an agenda for policy. It will be valuable to policy-makers and
academics alike.
*Stephen Broadberry, Professorial Fellow and a Professor of
Economic History, Nuffield College, Oxford University*
One of the most intellectually exciting areas of social science is
the fusion of economic history and economic development. This
important book brings some of the main practitioners of this
revolution together to reflect on the progress made.
*James A. Robinson, University Professor, University of Chicago,
Harris School of Public Policy*
Structural transformation of agrarian economies has been recognised
as essential to escaping poverty. It is one of the few
generalisations that development economists can confidently make!
Perhaps because of this, policy analysts have been overly
prescriptive and dogmatic about the path a given country should
take, holding up miracle cases as universal models. The great
feature of this book is to highlight the context-dependence,
diversity, and dynamism of development pathways. Bringing the
insights of leading economic historians to the practical issues of
agricultural and industrial development, this collection examines
the contingency of the transformation process across three
continents. The result is a deeply insightful contribution to both
economic history and development policy.
*Rob Cramb, Professor of Agricultural Development, University of
Queensland*
The book, written by experts on the subject, will be of great
interest to researchers of development economics and to economic
historians; there are even chapters that can be of interest to a
less specialized public, because they treat these topics in a
rigorous but clear and simple way.
*Gloria Quiroga, Economic History Review*
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