, Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan. Over this period Asian industrial development is placed in an international perspective by … comparison with the world productivity leader, the USA. The author uses new empirical data to assess the degree of structural … change in the manufacturing sector and its importance for productivity growth. He then discusses conditions for economic …

development and export competitiveness -- 7. Technological change and industrialization in the Asian newly industrializing … analysts interested in industrial development, technology and human resources … -- 11. Transfer and development of technology : Kenya and Tanzania …

technological development. Regarding the two lower income economies in the sample, Indonesia is found to have the smallest … collection of papers written by country experts on the issue of high-tech industrialization in East Asia. They present case … of the skill intensity of exports that, it is argued, deepens our understanding of industrialization trajectories in this …

development in Cambodia -- 9. Economic policy and the changing structure of small-scale manufacturing in Quito, Ecuador, 1975 …

1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The … sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth … accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial sectors in Korea (1984-2002) -- 6. Industry-wide total factor productivity …

factor productivity (TFP) growth and aims to identify the sources of output growth in these East Asian economies. Chia … policymakers specialising in Asian economies. Advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students in economic development and …

development issues. Economic Development and Agricultural Productivity will be of special interest to development and agricultural …This important book challenges conventional development theory by addressing not only technological but also socio …-economic factors influencing low agricultural productivity in the developing world. Agricultural productivity has long been regarded as …

capitalist revolution, the phases of capitalist development and class coalitions, micro- and macro-economics, and the importance …

This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved …, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policies …