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associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries in which his family had …
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This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade. It uses a simple theoretical framework of risky quality upgrading by firms under varying levels of financial development to derive two predictions. First, the mean rate of...
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This paper uses plant-level, panel data from the Ethiopian manufacturing census to estimate the effects of demand …
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's participation in manufacturing global value chains. Due to lack of reliable data on skilled labor, skilled and unskilled labor … skills and manufacturing global value chains are available for 19 subsectors was constructed. A fixed-effect gravity model … foreign value-added products in their manufacturing exports. Finally, countries that receive net inflows of migrants tend to …
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There is a global trend toward more production, use, and sale of services by manufacturing firms. This phenomenon is … known as the servicification of manufacturing. Services inputs as well as services activities within manufacturing firms … account for over half of the value of manufacturing exports. This paper uses a unique firm-level data set to analyze the link …
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deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares …'s manufacturing experience in resource rich countries …
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Africa's linkages in manufacturing global value chains are reasonably high compared with other developing regions … increased sharply in countries that are rich in natural resources. Moreover, the level and dynamics of linkages to manufacturing … cut across broad activity categories, including manufacturing textiles and apparel, metal products, transport equipment …
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This paper assesses the quality of health care across African countries based on health providers' clinical knowledge, their clinic attendance, and drug availability, with a focus on seven conditions accounting for a large share of child and maternal mortality: malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhea,...
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