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A manufacturing renaissance? : industrialization trends in the developing world
Kruse, Hagen; Mensah, Emmanuel; Sen, Kunal; Vries, … - 2021
This paper examines industrialization trends in developing countries. It uses the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic … countries for the period 1990-2018. Until the early 2000s de-industrialization was widespread, but then the trend reversed …. Regressions that control for income and demographic trends suggest significant employment industrialization in developing Asia and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428163
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Leapfrogging into the unknown : the future of structural change in the developing world
Schlogl, Lukas - 2020
This paper traces a set of major trends and future scenarios in global structural change. It argues that across multiple domains of change, developing economies are facing novel constellations of lateness and prematurity in technological and economic development. The paper explores these novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012173963
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Industrialization in developing countries : is it related to poverty reduction?
Erumban, Abdul Azeez; Vries, Gaaitzen J. de - 2021
This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and structural change-the reallocation of workers across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799097
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Measuring industry agglomeration and identifying the driving forces
Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2012
Understanding industry agglomeration and its driving forces is critical for the formulation of industrial policy in developing countries. Crucial to this process is the definition and measurement of agglomeration. We propose a new measure and examine what it reveals about the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628930
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The state, the market, and development
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2016
The state has played a major role in the most important developmental successes. This paper discusses the advances in our understanding of the role of the state in the developmental process over the past thirty years, and the contribution to those advances played by changes in economics, changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473933
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Extractive industries and development : lessons from international experience for Mozambique
Roe, Alan - 2018
In common with several other low-income African economies, in recent years Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its long-established extractives industries. Huge new gas finds in particular have led to expectations that these industries will contribute very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873860
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Scoping study on the evolution of industry in Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014
-protected import substitution industrialization strategy of 1960-83 to an outward liberalized strategy during 1984-2000, and since 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337614
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Digital de-industrialization, global value chains, and structural transformation : empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries
Banga, Karishma; Harbansh, Pankhury; Singh, Surendar - 2023
on a path of industrialization. In this study, we empirically examine the impact of digitalization and global value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280598
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Structural transformation and international trade : evidence from the China shock
Nedoncelle, Clément; Wolfersberger, Julien - 2023
the transformation of low- and middle-income economies out of agriculture. In our main specification industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280617
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Linked in by foreign direct investment : the role of firm-level relationships in knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia
Newman, Carol; Page, John M.; Rand, John; Shimeles, Abebe; … - 2018
This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinational enterprises (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms linked to these foreign affiliates as suppliers, customers, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947035