Deindustrialization, Distribution, and Development

Andy Sumner is a Professor of International Development at King's College London. He is Director of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Global Challenges Strategic Research Network on Global Poverty and Inequality Dynamics. He also holds associate positions at Oxford University; the Center for Global Development, Washington DC; the United Nations University, WIDER, Helsinki; and the Centre for Economics and Development Studies, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia. His research focuses on the relationship between poverty, inequality, and economic development across developing countries. He has twenty years’ international research experience and has published extensively, including ten books and fifty journal papers and book chapters. His most recent books are Global Poverty (2016, Oxford University Press) and Development and Distribution (2018, Oxford University Press).

• 1: Introduction 2: The two new middles: bifurcation and precarity in late economic development 3: Contemporary structural change: stalled industrialization and the spectre of premature deindustrialization 4: Income inequality between countries: catch-up and slow-down in a value chain world 5: Income inequality within countries: growth with falling labour shares 6: Conclusion

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