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Sectoral Engines of Growth in South Africa: An Analysis of Services and Manufacturing

Tregenna, Fiona - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

Manufacturing has traditionally been regarded in the development literature as having special ?growth-pulling? or … ?growth-enhancing? properties. The share of manufacturing in GDP has been declining slightly over time in South Africa, while … African economy. Manufacturing is found to be especially important as a source of demand for the services sector and the rest …

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Evidence from a Group-Based Aid Project in Mozambique

Nyyssola, Milla; Pirttila, Jukka; Sandstrom, Susanna - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

This paper evaluates the impact of an integrated rural development programme on farming techniques and food security in the Gaza area of rural Mozambique. We examine the impact of a group-based approach, in a country with few impact evaluations of technol

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Cross-country Diffusion of the Internet

Kiiski, Sampsa; Pohjola, Matti - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001

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Globalization, Crop Choice and Property Rights in Rural Peru, 1994-2004

Field, Alfred J.; Field, Erica - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

This paper describes the results of initial work analysing a panel of rural households in Peru between 1994 and 2004 to determine household responses to changes in relative prices of traditional versus export-oriented products. Our principal interest was to better understand how household...

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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to Technology Adoption by the Poor: Lessons from South-Indian Small-Scale Fishery

Gine, Xavier; Klonner, Stefan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Enterprise Agglomeration, Output Prices, and Physical Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence from Ethiopia

Siba, Eyerusalem; Soderbom, Mans; Bigsten, Arne; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

We use census panel data on Ethiopian manufacturing firms to analyze the connections between enterprise agglomeration …

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Industrial development and growth in Nigeria: Lessons and challenges

Chete, L. N.; Adeoti, J. O.; Adeyinka, F. M.; Ogundele, O. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. The primary sector, in particular, the oil and gas sector, dominates the gross domestic product accounting for over 95 per cent of export earnings and about 85 per cent of gove

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Mozambique.s industrialization

Cruz, Antonio Sousa; Guambe, Dina; Marrengula, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

After the Second World War, Mozambique went through a series of transformations, from an incipient industrializing colonial society to an independent country with a central planned economy, plus a regional and internal war, and finally from 1994 onwards,

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Manufacturing and Economic Development

Szirmai, Adam - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

This paper examines the theoretical and empirical evidence for the hypothesis that manufacturing is the main engine of … literature. The paper concludes that manufacturing will continue to be important in accelerating growth and achieving catch-up in …

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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 …

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