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Is African manufacturing skill-constrained?
Pack, Howard; Paxson, Christina H. - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001436411
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Does premature deindustrialization matter? : the role of manufacturing versus services in development
Nayyar, Gaurav; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da; Zhu, Linghui - 2018
, exports, and innovation, are increasingly shared by services sector firms. Yet, a given service subsector is unlikely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929602
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Structural transformation and productivity growth in Africa : Uganda in the 2000s
Ahmed, Sabin; Mengistae, Taye; Yoshino, Yutaka; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408785
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Does the minimum wage affect employment? : evidence from the manufacturing sector in Indonesia
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Nguyen, Ha; Wang, Liang Choon - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612813
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Digital innovation in East Asia : restrictive data policies matter?
Ferracane, Martina Francesca; Van der Marel, Erik - 2020
negatively associated with digital innovation of firms. The paper develops an index of data restrictions that measures the level … innovation process. Country-specific cases for which data are available also show that restrictive data policies are negatively … associated with firms' likelihood of using intangible assets, such as patents and goodwill, for performing innovation (in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228428
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Market size, sunk costs of entry, and transport costs : an empirical evaluation of the impact of demand-side factors versus supply-side factors on manufacturing productivity
Jones, Patricia; Lartey, Emmanuel; Mengistae, Taye; … - 2019
This paper uses plant-level, panel data from the Ethiopian manufacturing census to estimate the effects of demand-side and supply-side factors on industrywide aggregate productivity. The paper focuses on the effects of three factors: (1) local market size, (2) the value of transportation costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051859
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Industrialization on a knife's edge : productivity, labor costs and the rise of manufacturing in Ethiopia
Caria, Stefano A. - Weltbank - 2019
The latest push for industrialization in Ethiopia has attracted much academic and public interest. This paper assesses … for further industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114001
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Sources of manufacturing productivity growth in Africa
Jones, Patricia; Lartey, Emmanuel; Mengistae, Taye; … - 2019
This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of market share between firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114087
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Manufacturing in structural change in Africa
Nguimkeu, Pierre; Zeufack, Albert G. - 2019
This paper investigates the scale, causes, and timing of significant episodes of industrialization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114107
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Innovation patterns and their effects on firm-level productivity in South Asia
Cirera, Xavier; Cusolito, Ana P. - 2019
This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … Asia region can be divided into two groups, in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders … (Bangladesh and India) and laggards (Nepal and Pakistan). Leaders present higher rates of innovation activities than laggards and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051862