The Rediscovery of the Concept of ‘Structural Change’ in Developing Economies: Transitions, Cumulative Causation and Institutions

Alice Sindzingre

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Abstract: The paper elaborates a critical analysis of the increasing attention given to the concept of ‘structural change' in low-income countries within international financial institutions. It shows the relevance of the concepts built by regulation theory for such a critical assessment of ‘structural change', in particular accumulation regimes, transitions and institutional forms. It also enriches this critique in proposing a conceptualisation of institutions, which is centred on cumulative causation and the stability of some beliefs, norms and institutions, and on the latter's effects on regime transitions – or, on the contrary, on the absence of transition and stabilisation in given regimes, as is the case in most commodity-dependent low-income countries.

Keywords: Structural change; regime transition; institutions; cumulative causation; low-income countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in International Conference 'Research and Regulation', Université Paris-Diderot, Ladyss, Inalco , 2015, Paris, Unknown Region

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