Growth Models and Structural Change: Regional Varieties and Socioeconomic Impacts (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Connecting comparative political economy with structural economics, this book explores the relationship between national growth models and economic structures and considers the impacts of both growth models and structural change on various arenas include gender and environmental issues. The comparative political economy paradigm of demand-led growth models examines the links between macrodynamics and region- and nation-specific institutions, while structural economics explores the composition and transformation of the structure of the economy, its technological endowments and its external insertion.The book explores the explanatory potential of combining these approaches through three parts: the first part lays out the theoretical foundations of the approaches; the second part is devoted to a set of region- and country-specific studies, covering both advanced and developing economies, including Europe, Mediterranean Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the U.S., China, and Latin America