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 […]
Month: October 2017
What have 200 years of development brought for workers’ wages in Mexico? (Hint: not much)
A new ESRC Global Poverty & Inequality Dynamics Research Network working paper takes a long-run view on the development of wages and living standards in […]
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. […]
