Structural Transformation

Piya ​Mahtaney is a  visiting lecturer with St Xavier’s Institute of Communications, Mumbai, India. She is also council member of Forum of Free Enterprise and on the academic council of Maharashtra Institute of Technology. She writes a monthly column, Econ Buzz about a wide gamut of issues pertinent to sustainable development issues in Forum Views published by the Brokers Forum, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). She has written four books, including Globalization and Sustainable Economic Development (2013), India China and Globalization (2007).

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Section 1: Investment.- Chapter 2: Understanding the Productivity Slowdown and its Practical Implications.- Chapter 3: Premature Deindustrialization, Economic Dualism and the Changing Dynamics of Growth.- Chapter 4: Revisiting the lessons and insights from East Asia’s Remarkable Narrative of Structural Transformation.- Chapter 5: Changing Drivers of Globalization and the Next Phase of Economic Integration.- Chapter 6: Financial Reform: A Crucial Imperative, Issues and Challenges.- Section 2: Innovation.- Chapter 7: Forging a Closer Link between the Technological and Non Technological Dimensions of Innovation.- Chapter 8: Revisiting the Present Relevance of Some Widely Acknowledged Theories of Innovation.- Section 3: Institutions.- Chapter 9: Understanding the Criticality of Institutional Change in Determining Economic Outcomes.- Chapter 10: Institutional Reform, Equity and Liberalism: Drivers and Deterrents.- Conclusion.