Industrialization experiences differ substantially across countries. We use a benchmark model of structural change to … countries can generate variation in industrialization experiences similar to those found in the data, including premature …

Africa's recent growth performance has raised expectations of a bright economic future for the continent after decades … of decline. Yet there is a genuine question about whether Africa's growth can be sustained, and if so, at what level. The … industrialization, seem to be operating at less than full power. If African countries do achieve growth rates substantially higher, they …

Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid … peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th century, the high point of peripheral industrialization was the 1950 …-1973 period, which saw widespread import- substituting industrialization. This period was also the high point of unconditional …

industrialization. Even before widespread mechanization, American production was almost exclusively from centralized plants, whereas the …

during this stage of industrialization, and that much of its early productivity growth can be explained by changes in …

investment during early industrialization. Although several manufacturing industries, such as cotton textiles, depart from the … per unit of labor is also presented, serving to undercut the notion that the early period of industrialization was based …