Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista: There is a difference between structural transformation in which the share of agriculture in total output declines over time, and structural transformation in which the share of agricultural sector employment to total employment declines over time as a country develops. The authors state that they would like to focus on the output side of structural adjustment (i.e., what happens to the sectoral shares of output rather than the sectoral shares of labor).
I think that, as the focus of the paper is pro-poor growth, it is more important to talk about people and employment rather than output. Indeed, the authors define growth as pro-poor “if and only if poor people benefit in absolute terms, as reflected in an appropriate measure of poverty.” The paper by Loayza and Raddatz (2006) that the authors themselves cite argues that the labor intensity of the growing sector rather than which economic...