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Extraordinarily high growth rates are almost always the result of rapid structural transformation, industrialization in particular

Rodrik, 2014

Author B.LPosted on 21st July 201520th September 2016Categories Quote Slider

Structural transformation-the birth and expansion of new (higher-productivity) industries and the transfer of labor from traditional or lower-productivity activities to modern ones

Rodrik, 2014

Author B.LPosted on 21st July 201520th September 2016Categories Quote Slider

Transformation is where ‘labor and other resources move from agriculture into modern economic activities, overall productivity rises and incomes expand

McMillan, 2014

Author B.LPosted on 21st July 201520th September 2016Categories Quote Slider

A process moving labour and other resources from lower to higher productive activities

SET, 2015

Author B.LPosted on 21st July 201520th September 2016Categories Quote Slider

Economic transformation involves moving labour from low to higher productive activities

Dirk Willem te Velde, 2013

Author B.LPosted on 21st July 201520th September 2016Categories Quote Slider

Economic Transformation is the continued dynamic reallocation of resources from less productive to more productive sectors and activities

EPS PEAKS, 2013

Author B.LPosted on 21st July 201520th September 2016Categories Quote Slider

Transformation doesn’t happen overnight but is a long-term process. It requires constructive relationships between the state and the private sector

ACET, 2014

Author B.LPosted on 21st July 201520th September 2016Categories Quote Slider

If ‘jobs’ are increasingly a key developing-country policy objective, ‘economic transformation’ is increasingly seen as the means of achieving this

– ECDPM and ODI, 2015

Author B.LPosted on 21st July 201520th September 2016Categories Quote Slider

Transformation will come through diversifying African economies, boosting their international competitiveness

ACET, 2014

Author B.LPosted on 21st July 201520th September 2016Categories Quote Slider

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