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International Trade and Manufacturing Employment Outcomes in India: A Comparative Study
Sen, Kunal - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
of methodological approaches ? factor content, growth accounting and econometric modelling. We also compare India …?s employment outcomes with four other countries ? Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa, and Vietnam ? where similar methodological … approaches were used. We find that the impact of international trade on manufacturing employment seems to be similar to those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059970
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Globalization, Technology Transfer, and Skill Accumulation in Low-Income Countries
Mayer, Jorg - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031882
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Manufacturing Productivity, Deindustrialization, and Reindustrialization
Tregenna, Fiona - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
, by decomposing changes in the level and share of manufacturing employment. The results indicate that in most countries … the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366418
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Informality, growth, and development in Africa
Benjamin, Nancy; Mbaye, Ahmadou Aly - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The informal sector makes up an overwhelming share of both gross domestic product and total employment in Africa. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766029
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Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Oketch, Moses - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Technical, vocational education, and training has remained an explosive topic because it can create a divided society in terms of education and the benefits associated with it. Internationally, it has always been a complex and controversial topic compared
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854451
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reducti
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854458
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that det
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854460
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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
Page, John; Shimeles, Abebe - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation?the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854479
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Youth in Tanzania.s urbanizing mining settlements: Prospecting a mineralized future
Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a .mining take-off.. Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-in
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854481
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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa
Golub, Stephen; Hayat, Faraz - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739503