Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of … Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of … production possibilities to illuminate the possible contribution of diversification to economic and social development in …

This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … particular, by focusing on the diversification of imports, we add a missing piece to already analysed export trends. We use …), they follow a similar path of evolution in the development process. Progressing relative diversification (despecialisation …