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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.

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.

In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China's structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978. Economic activities have shifted from the low-productivity agricultural sector to the high-productivity industrial sector and, more recently, the tertiary sector, with a large portion of the labour force moving from rural to urban areas, from inland to coastal regions, and from the public to the private sectors. These changes have only been able to happen because of major reforms to the land system, the Hukou system, the ownership of state-owned enterprises, and trade policies. Despite its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to decline in the late 2000s. We analyse the political economy that determined the inclusiveness of the structural transformation. As the economy further transitions into services, the tension between structural transformation and its inclusiveness will depend more on the government's ability to reform the current social security policies and pay more attention to disadvantaged groups.

This paper documents stylized facts on the process of structural transformation around the world and empirically analyzes its determinants using data on real value added by sector of economic activity (agriculture, manufacturing and services) for a panel of 168 countries over the period 1970-2010. The analysis points to large differences in sector shares both across and within regions as well as for countries at similar levels of economic development. Using both linear and quantile regression methods, it finds that a large proportion of the cross-country variation in sector shares can be accou

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Table -- Figure -- Appendix -- I. Introduction -- 1. Real GDP per Capita Growth Rate -- II. Data -- 2. Thailand: Agricultural Employment -- III. How Does Thailand Compare with Other Economies? -- 3. Value Added per Worker -- 4. Value Added per Worker Relative to Economy-Wide Average -- 5. Employment Shares -- 6. Employment in Agriculture and GDP per Capita in Selected Asian Economies -- 7. Employment in Agriculture and GDP per Capita in Emerging Market and Developing Economies -- 1. Weighted Coefficient of Variation -- 8. Scaled Covariance -- IV. More Detailed Breakdown -- 9. Scaled Covariance for Selected Countries -- 10. Value Added per Worker -- V. Dynamics -- 11. Evolution of Employment Shares and Productivity in Thailand -- VI. Model -- 12. Impact of Guaranteed Price -- 13. Impact of Minimum Wage -- VII. What Explains Thailand's Idiosyncrasies? -- 14. Thailand: Share of Agriculture in Employment -- VIII. Policy Implications -- IX. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix I: Productivity Growth Decomposition -- Footnotes.

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