Developing countries seek broad-based, inclusive economic development that raises the income of all, especially the poor. The Developer's Dilemma explores the tension between this aim and the hypothesis that economic development tends to put upward pressure on income inequality, at least initially and in the absence of countervailing policies.

1: Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Kunal Sen, Andy Sumner, and Arief Yusuf: The developer's dilemma 2: Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Kyunghoon Kim, Kunal Sen, Andy Sumner, and Arief Yusuf: The developer's dilemma: A survey of structural transformation and inequality dynamics Part I. East Asia 3: Kyunghoon Kim, Arriya Mungsunti, Andy Sumner, and Arief Yusuf: Structural transformation and inclusive growth: Kuznets' 'developer's dilemma' in Indonesia 4: Yanan Li and Chunbing Xing: Getting rich and unequal? Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China 5: Peter Warr and Waleerat Suphannachart: Benign growth: Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand Part II. South Asia 6: Saon Ray and Sabyasachi Kar: Inclusive structural transformation in India: Past episodes and future trajectories 7: Selim Raihan and Sunera Saba Khan: The challenges of structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growth in Bangladesh Part III. Sub-Saharan Africa 8: Robert Darko Osei, Richmond Atta-Ankomah, and Monica Lambon-Quayefio: Adverse political settlements: An impediment to structural transformation and inclusive growth in Ghana 9: Haroon Bhorat, Kezia Lilenstein, Morné Oosthuizen, François Steenkamp, and Amy Thornton: Economic growth, rising inequality, and de-industrialization: South Africa's Kuznetsian tension Part IV. Latin America 10: Sergio Firpo, Renan Pieri, and Rafaela Nogueira: Inclusive growth without structural transformation? The case of Brazil 11: Andres Solimano and Gabriela Zapata-Román: Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth: The case of Chile Part V. Looking Ahead 12: Lukas Schlogl: Leapfrogging into the unknown: The future of structural change in the developing world 13: Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Kunal Sen, Andy Sumner, and Arief Yusuf: The developer's dilemma: Conclusions

Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is Under-secretary-general of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP (2018-present), and Professor of Economics at Universitas Padjadjaran. Kunal Sen is Director of UNU-WIDER and Professor of Development Economics at the University of Manchester. Andy Sumner is Professor of International Development at King's College London. Arief Yusuf is Professor of Economics at Universitas Padjadjaran.

Explores the tension between structural transformation and inequality in a range of low- and middle- income countries worldwide Provides an understanding of the possibilities offered by different paths to structural transformation Brings together empirical research and analysis from leading international scholars An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence