A Critical Examination of 'The Patterns of Development'
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 431-446
ISSN: 0022-0388
The decline in the share of agriculture & increase in secondary production's share have generally been found to accompany changes in per capita income. Cross-sectional data have long exhibited such a "pattern of development." Recent panel information combining cross-section & time-series data seems to extend the behavior to time series. Using analysis of covariance tests for such patterns, the assumption of homogeneous patterns is rejected. In addition, 45% of the individual countries deviate from the expected time-series pattern. Thus, such patterns certainly do appear in cross sections, but their existence across countries over time is not confirmed. 6 Tables, 1 Appendix, 9 References. HA.