新结构经济学将经济发展视为技术、产业以及软硬基础设施的持续的结构变化过程 — — 所有这些因素都能提高劳动生产率，进而提高人均收入。
NSE treats modern economic development as a process of continuous structural change in technologies, industries, and hard and soft infrastructure – all of which increases labor productivity, and thus per capita income.