ABSTRACT
The main purpose of this chapter is to provide an overarching framework for understanding and linking the contemporary development discourse (introduced in Chapter 1) and theoretical and empirical accounts on structural transformation and sustainable development (explored in Chapter 2), with particular reference to low-income countries. Having presented this framework, each of its three components – comprising as follows: two normative frameworks adopted by national governments to inform country-specific development strategies; country change processes of socioeconomic and environmental development; and three key exogenous drivers of change – is elaborated upon by linking them to the contributions of other scholars. It is thus demonstrated how the Inclusive Sustainable Development (ISD) framework, an overarching framework of integrated analysis of these two development agendas builds on and is a synthesis of relevant wider literature. This framework also helps to further clarify the scope and limitations of the book as a whole.
