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 …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through …

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 …

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 …

and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises … dominant elite at the regional and country level is the same and/or the industrialization shock is sufficiently high. If …

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 …

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context …