Martin Andersson is Professor at CIRCLE, Lund University. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and has been a Marie Curie post-doc at EUI in Florence and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. His research interests include agricultural development and the relation between economic growth, poverty reduction, and distribution of income in the developing world. He is co-editor of Development and Structural Change in Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2003). Tobias Axelsson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economic History at Lund University. His research is on agricultural transformation processes and colonial origins of inequality. He has been a guest researcher at ISEAS in Singapore and a guest research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden. Dr Axelsson is a co-founder of the Bachelor programme in development studies at Lund University.
Part 1: Structural Transformation and Catching Up 1. Diversity of Development Paths and Structural Transformation in Historical Perspective: An Introduction, Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson 2. Structural Change and Catching Up: The Relative Small Country Advantage, Lennart Schon 3. The Latecomer Advantages and Disadvantages: A New Structural Economics Perspective, Justin Yifu Lin 4. The Role of Agriculture in Catching Up: A Gerschenkronian Perspective, C. Peter Timmer Part 2: Diversity in Development 5. Misinterpreting the East Asian Miracles: A Gerschenkronian perspective on substitution and advantages of backwardness in the industrialization of Eastern Asia, Christer Gunnarsson 6. Southeast Asia: The Half-Way Miracles?, Anne Booth 7. Catching Up: Now and Then: Has Latin America Changed Tracks?, Luis Bertola 8. Economic Backwardness and Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964-2014, Lee Alston and Bernardo Mueller 9. Is Africa too Late for 'Late Development'? Gerschenkron South of the Sahara, Gareth Austin 10. Is Sub-Saharan Africa Finally Catching Up?, Erik Thorbecke and Yusi Ouyang 11. Relative Economic Backwardness and Catching up: Lessons from History, Implications for Development Thinking, Martin Andersson and Tobias Axelsson
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