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The product space: What does it say about the opportunities for growth and structural transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa?
Abdon, Arnelyn; Felipe, Jesus - 2011
In this paper we look at the economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the context of structural transformation. We use Hidalgo et al.'s (2007) concept of product space to show the evolution of the region's productive structure, and discuss the opportunities for growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281709
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Is the elephant stepping on its trunk? The problem of India´s unbalanced growth
Douhan, Robin; Nordberg, Anders - 2007
, evidence suggests that basic manufacturing industry is stagnant. This paper proposes a mechanism that ties these two trends …. By imposing different cost structures on the manufacturing and high-technology industries the model describes outcome in … effects on the manufacturing industry as well as aggregate income. A policy directing resources towards infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321626
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How rich countries became rich and why poor countries remain poor: It's economic structure ... duh!
Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav; Abdon, Arnelyn - 2010
Becoming a rich country requires the ability to produce and export commodities that embody certain characteristics. We classify 779 exported commodities according to two dimensions: (1) sophistication (measured by the income content of the products exported); and (2) connectivity to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286532
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Ethiopia's high growth and its challenges: Causes and prospects
Priewe, Jan - 2016
" (GTP) does not sufficiently address the failure of industrialisation, focused on manufacturing. Ethiopia has the third … lowest rank in manufacturing as a share of GDP in the group of low-income countries, reaching only half of the average in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488626
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R&d subsidy and import substitution: Growing in the shadow of protection
de Souza, Gustavo - 2023
I study the effect of an innovation subsidy on the growth of firms in a developing country. Using administrative microdata for Brazil and difference-in-differences, I find that innovation subsidies drive firm growth by facilitating firm entry into high-tariff markets with domestically produced,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480727
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China, India and industrial policy for inclusive growth
Kaur, Inderjit N.; Singh, Nirvikar - 2013
This paper discusses a possible case for industrial policy, with special reference to the two emerging global giants, China and India. It begins with a clarification of the meaning of industrial policy, since not only does the term mean different things to different people, but the traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369497
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The Two Waves of Service-Sector Growth
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2009
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807641
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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage: Patterns of industrial convergence
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000
Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294574
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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth?
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2010
services has been broad-based. We show that the growth of service sector employment is not simply disguised manufacturing … is no longer obvious that manufacturing is the main destination for the vast majority of Indian labour moving into the … expansion of both modern manufacturing and modern services is constrained by the availability of skilled labour, this just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807655
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A 'Low-Road' Approach to the Haitian Apparel Sector
Lundahl, Mats; Söderlund, Bengt - 2021
solution, other than possibly in the long run. The only alternative is export-based industrialization, since Haiti is a small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208894