Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 508
Cover Image
The political economy of structural transformation in African cities : insights from the Deals and Development framework
Sen, Kunal - 2024
transformation. This paper provides a political economy analysis of the lack of structural transformation in African cities, drawing … on the Deals and Development framework. It argues that limited structural transformation in African cities is due to the … nature of state-business relations in the cities, where manufacturing and tradeable services firms in the formal sector face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053974
Cover Image
Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania's service sector
Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Silver, Jed - 2017
finds that subsectors such as trade services contribute significantly to employment despite their relatively low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592917
Cover Image
Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco : subnational insights
Akim, Al-mouksit; Sahel, Wissal - 2023
This paper aims to revisit the pace and patterns of structural change in Morocco with a renewed perspective focusing on subnational trends to document the macro patterns. In that perspective, we first build a within-country sectoral longitudinal dataset covering employment and value added (VA)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290677
Cover Image
Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China
Li, Yanan; Xing, Chunbing - 2020
major reforms to the land system, the Hukou system, the ownership of state-owned enterprises, and trade policies. Despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181039
Cover Image
Special economic zones and transnational zones as tools for Southern Africa's growth : lessons from international best practice
Karambakuwa, Roseline T.; Matekenya, Weliswa; Mishi, Syden - 2020
The paper evaluates strategies for developing successful special economic zones and transnational zones for Southern African countries to spur growth and employment. Most special economic zones implemented in Southern Africa have largely failed to bring adequate growth and employment due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405620
Cover Image
Learning from experience : Special Economic Zones in Southern Africa
Makgetla, Neva Seidman - 2021
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become common across Southern Africa in the past 20 years. In line with experiences in the rest of the world, they have had at best marginal success. Their essential premise is that it should be more efficient and effective to establish an enclave with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592248
Cover Image
From fiscal stabilization to economic diversification : a developmental approach to managing resource revenues
Chang, Ha-joon; Lebdioui, Amir - 2020
The management of revenues from exhaustible natural resources involves a number of challenges. In this paper, we argue that the standard policy advice to managers of resource revenues has been dominated by short-termism and the lack of a perspective on economic development and structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265519
Cover Image
From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy : explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about it
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2018
Success in development over the past half-century was based on manufacturing-led export growth. Because the share of global employment in manufacturing will decline, manufacturing won't play the same role in the coming decades. An increase in manufacturing employment won't suffice to meet the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955468
Cover Image
Manufacturing and economic development
Szirmai, Adam - 2011
This paper examines the theoretical and empirical evidence for the hypothesis that manufacturing is the main engine of growth in developing countries. The paper opens with an overview of the main arguments supporting the engine of growth hypothesis and then examines each of these arguments using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381971
Cover Image
Learning from Asia's success beyond simplistic 'lesson-making'
Hobday, Michael - 2011
Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia's success, recommending that other poor countries follow similar models and paths of development. This study argues that such Asian 'lesson-making' is a grave mistake in policy-thinking -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009261012