Sustainable development implies reducing the gap in GDP per capita between center and periphery, increasing equality and protecting the environment. In this paper, we present a simple model within the Structuralist tradition that combines these three dimensions of sustainable development. We...

The shift of labour out of the agricultural sector and into the manufacturing and services sectors seems to be an important factor in explaining why some countries are so much richer than others. Therefore, understanding not only the driving mechanisms and forces behind the process of structural...

This paper develops a unified framework to analyze the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainable development within the context of a centerperiphery international system. It introduces a three-gap model to address the challenges posed by the discrepancies among three key...