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'The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation' addresses the economics of structural transformation around the world. It deals with major themes, which include history and context, critical issues and concepts, methodological foundations, main theoretical approaches, policy issues, some illuminating country experiences of structural transformation, and important debates on the respective roles of the market and the state in that process. The historical record provides a challenge for economists to understand the success of the rising economic powers (some of them initially considered unlikely candidates for prosperity) and the stagnation or decline of others.

'Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development' is a study of structural change dynamics in Africa and its effect on job creation, living standards and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefit the majority. Empirical data from selected African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia, provides in-depth analysis and knowledge of the continent's diversified economies by establishing relationships between industrialization trends; rates of urbanization; and urban living standards, income growth and employment in Africa. The findings reveal unconventional pathways of structural change, patterns of jobless growth suggesting economic growth that does not necessarily lead to employment, dominance of services at the expense of manufacturing industry explaining the regress in Africa's industrial sector and occurrence of structural transformation without improvement in labour productivity. These are important concerns for Africa's long-term development leading to the conclusion that sustainable urbanization and industrialization are not only closely connected but also key drivers of economic change. The book includes recommendations for policymakers to adopt a new approach to development for a resurgent Africa.

The Polish sugar industry has undergone significant transformation, including: adaptation to changing market regulations, ownership changes, structural transformation and modernisation. The sugar market has been among the most regulated food markets in the EU. During the years 2006 to 2010, market policy was reformed but its instruments strongly interfered in market mechanisms. The restructuring of the national sugar industry resulted in the sector's evolution into an oligopoly, with the large share being held by German sugar companies. Modernisation of sugar factories contributed to improved efficiency of management which, along with the good economic situation, has determined very good financial results.

1. Capitalism and family farming -- 2. Structural transformation and farming -- 3. Urbanization and agrarian change : a view from the margins / Srilata Sircar -- 4. What you might like to know about regression -- 5. Drivers of agrarian transformation -- 6. Volatility in land distribution -- 7. Relative change in income -- 8. Conclusions : no place for family farms?

The U.S. economy has been going through a striking structural transformation--the secular reallocation of employment across sectors--over the past several decades. We propose a decomposition framework to assess the contributions of various margins of firm dynamics to this shift. Using firm-level data, we find that at least 50 percent of the adjustment has been taking place along the entry margin, due to sectors receiving different shares of startup employment than their employment shares. The rest is mostly due to life cycle differences across sectors. Declining overall entry has a small but growing effect of dampening structural transformation.