The main goal of this paper is to provide an integrated survey of the literature devoted to
identifying the drivers of structural change, broadly defined as the process of reallocation of …

Classical development economics, especially structuralist approaches, regard the
manufacturing sector as having special properties as an engine of economic growth. From …

With the 2008 economic crisis–and again with the outbreak of the coronavirus emergency in
2020–industrial policy has explicitly reappeared in the political agenda of many countries …

There has been a lively debate in Brazil in recent years, involving sectors of business, the
labor movement, and academics, over deindustrialization and the future of the …

This article addresses three main issues: why there is such a huge diversity of disposable
income inequality across the world, why there is such a deterioration of market inequality …

As a stylised fact of deindustrialisation, the relationship between Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) and the share of manufacturing in GDP and employment generally follows an …

One of the key features of modern economic growth is the process of structural
transformation, which is the movement of workers from agriculture to manufacturing and …

Literature suggests many countries across the world are facing a growing political backlash
against the consequences of deindustrialisation. Intensifying anti-globalisation sentiment …

Industrialisation has been seen as central to the development process since the earliest
days of Development Economics as a field. In the policy sphere, this recognition was …

In the middle of the 20th century, economic theories predicted an evolution towards
development that involved the tertiarization of the productive structure, with industry losing …