Public Lecture on Economic Growth, Structural Transformation and Employment: Which Pathway? will be presented by Rizwanul Islam, PhD (LSE), Former Special Adviser, Employment Sector, International Labour Office (ILO), Geneva.
The lecture will feature the connection between economic growth, productive employment, better living and structural transformation. It will address key questions of:
(i) does the modern sector in dual economy models have to mean manufacturing, or it can include trade and services?
(ii) is transfer of surplus labour from traditional to modern sector synonymous with migration from rural to urban areas or workers may be able to find higher productivity employment in rural (or semi-urban) non-farm activities?
(iii) are there alternative ways of attaining structural transformation and reaching the Lewis turning point in dual economies?
(iv) how effective will they be?
The lecture organized by Department of Economics and Social Sciences and BRAC University Economics Club.