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  2. Structural change - Wikipedia

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    In economics, structural change is a shift or change in the basic ways a market or economy functions or operates. [1]Such change can be caused by such factors as economic development, global shifts in capital and labor, changes in resource availability due to war or natural disaster or discovery or depletion of natural resources, or a change in political system.

  3. Economic transformation - Wikipedia

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    Economic transformation can be measured through production/value-added measures and trade-based measures. Production-based measures include: (1) sector value added and employment data, to show productivity gaps between sectors; and (2) firm-level productivity measures, to examine average productivity levels of firms within one sector.

  4. Structural adjustment - Wikipedia

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    There are many examples of structural adjustments failing. In Africa, instead of making economies grow fast, structural adjustment actually had a contractive impact in most countries. Economic growth in African countries in the 1980s and 1990s fell below the rates of previous decades. Agriculture suffered as state support was radically withdrawn.

  5. A Structural Change at Hess? - AOL

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    In this video, Motley Fool Energy Analyst Joel South tells us about several structural changes at Hess (NYS: HES) , including a predicted spinoff of its refining and downstream sections. This had ...

  6. Structural fix - Wikipedia

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    A structural fix refers to solving a problem or resolving a conflict by bringing about structural changes that change the underlying structures that provoked or sustain these problems. According to Heberlein such changes modify human behavior by regulating the social settings or the 'structures' in which the behavior occurs − their context.

  7. Structuralist economics - Wikipedia

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    structural adjustment as only one component of structural change. More recent contributions to structuralist economics have highlighted the importance of institutions and distribution across both productive sectors and social groups. These institutions and sectors may be incorporated macroeconomic or multisectoral models.

  8. Development economics - Wikipedia

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    There are two major forms of structural-change theory: W. Lewis' two-sector surplus model, which views agrarian societies as consisting of large amounts of surplus labor which can be utilized to spur the development of an urbanized industrial sector, and Hollis Chenery's patterns of development approach, which holds that different countries ...

  9. Structural unemployment - Wikipedia

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    Structural unemployment is a form of involuntary unemployment caused by a mismatch between the skills that workers in the economy can offer, and the skills demanded of workers by employers (also known as the skills gap). Structural unemployment is often brought about by technological changes that make the job skills of many workers obsolete.