Abstract
Among Hans Singer’s most important contributions to development economics is his effectiveness in leading our thinking into new directions. His early paper, ‘The Distribution of Gains Between Investing and Borrowing Countries’ [18], opened an area that has proved, over the past quarter-century, to be of primary importance in both research and policy. More recently he was among the first economists to appreciate the failures of apparently satisfactory rates of capital accumulation and growth rates of output to provide adequate employment opportunities and to relieve massive low-end poverty in developing countries. The present paper is an effort to work out in further detail some of the ideas expressed in his recent papers on employment and income distribution in a developing economy [16, 17].
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Bruton, H.J. (1976). Employment, Productivity and Income Distribution. In: Cairncross, A., Puri, M. (eds) Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy: Problems of the Developing Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81529-6_6
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