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This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political … used for exploring the role of political economy in Ethiopian industrialization. Different political strategies were … strategies of protectionist import substitution industrialization and the outward strategy of export-oriented industrialization …
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manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 …
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This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various … estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as …-shape relationship between industrialization and GDP per capita is consistent with (premature) de-industrialization. Technological change …
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This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …
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The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …
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This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional … steam engines across French departments during the early phases of industrialization, the research establishes that … intensive industrialization in the middle of the 19th century increased income per capita in the subsequent decades but …
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This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...
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concerned, African countries will in differing degrees experience three varieties of industrialization, all influenced by new … services now perform functions previously expected from manufacturing. A third variety of future industrialization is labelled … "resurgent entrepreneurship-lead industrialization" denoting that some African countries will take part in new and advanced types …
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Group 1 metal and chemical industries formed the essential suppliers of British war materials during WW2. Their industrial sectors covered metal manufacture, general and electrical engineering, vehicle production, aircraft production, shipbuilding, metal goods, chemicals and explosives, and...
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This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...
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