Abstract
In this paper, we review the main connections explored by heterodox literature on growth, productive structure and income distribution. The interpretation that the unbalanced growth that took place in the last decade in industrialized countries and in Asia, particularly in China, was based on a profit-led growth regime, was considered and compared with the argument that the structural unbalance in primary export countries was based (as in "Dutch disease") on a wage-led regime. In the review of this literature, we argue that although the inclusion of income distribution at the core of economic growth has indisputable merit, it is insufficient as an interpretation of the different national patterns built by the connections between productive structure and growth strategy.
Keywords:
growth regime; income distribution; exports; productive diversification; distributive conflict