The South Asian economies within the global context / Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth, and Marika Vicziany -- Privatization and resistance in South Asia / Peter Mayer -- The middle classes of South Asia / Marika Vicziany -- Overseas research and development and appropriation of intellectual...

This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and structural change-the reallocation of workers across...