Re-Examining the Narrative of Structural Transformation: Insights from India’s Development Experience

What is it about?

This paper argues that structural transformation- dominant paradigm in development economics which assumes that all countries go through a linear development path from agriculture to non-agriculture sector as that way it happened in the countries in the global North is an unreliable claim given the realities of postcolonial nature of capitalist development taking place in the global South. The frame of structural transformation is vehemently used by studies done by scholars from Global North and South alike and this needs to be changed.

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Why is it important?

It questions the dominant narrative in development economics and explains how and why it is an inadequate framework to understand contemporary development processes in the global South