Diverse Development Paths and Structural Transformation in the Escape from Poverty

Martin Andersson is Associate Professor of 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 Senior Lecturer 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; PART 2: DIVERSITY IN DEVELOPMENT

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.