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Developer’s Dilemma

The Rise of the Robot Reserve Army: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

July 6, 2018 Lukas Schlogl 0

The rise of a new global ‘robot reserve army’ will have profound effects on developing countries but will it mean people will be working hard […]

Does deindustrialisation cause inequality to rise?

June 22, 2018 Lukas Schlogl 0

This week, ESRC GPID Director, Andy Sumner continues continues the set of blogs on deindustrialisation and developing countries. In past weeks, we’ve discussed varieties of […]

How did South East Asia counter-intuitively deal with the distributional tensions that rapid change often entails?

May 18, 2018 Lukas Schlogl 0

This week, ESRC GPID Director, Andy Sumner, continues the set of blogs on structural transformation and inclusive growth in South East Asia. Malaysia, Indonesia and […]

What does South East Asia teach us about structural transformation and what would Arthur Lewis have said about it?

May 11, 2018 Lukas Schlogl 0

This week, ESRC GPID Director, Andy Sumner, continues the discussion on structural transformation and inclusive growth in South East Asia. We asked last week what […]

What can South East Asia tell us about Structural Transformation and Inequality Dynamics?

May 4, 2018 Lukas Schlogl 0

This week’s blog is the first of a set of posts on the ‘developer’s dilemma’ in South East Asia from ESRC GPID Director, Andy Sumner. […]

Three schools of economic development theory: where does the ‘developer’s dilemma’ fit?

April 27, 2018 Lukas Schlogl 0

In the last two blogs we discussed the Lewis model of economic development, its contemporary relevance and its thinking on inequality and ‘trickle along economics’. […]

What is ‘structural transformation’ and why does it matter?

November 15, 2017 Lukas Schlogl 0

Most workers in pre-industrial Europe once pursued agricultural work. Later the economy shifted to manufacturing jobs and then to the service sector. In short, economic […]

The future of employment: back in fashion?

October 24, 2017 Lukas Schlogl 0

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 […]

China, Chongqing

Does structural change lead to rising inequality?

October 13, 2017 Lukas Schlogl 0

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’?

October 6, 2017 Lukas Schlogl 0

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. […]

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