productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that …, the country's impressive growth in output per capita over the past three decades can largely be attributed not to its … structural transformation but instead to sustained growth in within-sector labor productivity. At 3 percent, the contribution of …

deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares … deindustrialization. However, this deindustrialization of the Southern subregion does not appear to be occurring prematurely. The study …

This paper documents the sources of the Republic of Korea's economic growth, as well as the associated productivity … growth and efficiency dynamics during its process of structural transformation from 1970 to 2016. The analysis includes land … (TFP). Input-based growth and structural changes contributed to the early take-off stage of growth in the 1970s. However …

This paper documents that structural change positively contributed to labor productivity growth in Guinea during 2006 …-15. However, the contribution of structural change to productivity growth was modest (about one percentage point per year on …, such as wholesale and retail trade and community services. Although such services are more productive than agriculture …

Ethiopia has achieved sustained high growth for more than a decade. At the same time, the country has been facing … stimulates exports in general and manufacturing exports in particular, improves the trade and current account balances, and spurs … economic growth. Currency undervaluation is a second-best policy intervention that can help offset some of the key constraints …

This paper examines the post-reform economic growth in three Central American economies - Costa Rica, El Salvador, and … had a quantitative impact on growth in Costa Rica and Panama. Decomposing the aggregate effects reveals that the gains … sharply in El Salvador for both genders and has proved to be a drag on growth …