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Industrial development and growth in Nigeria : lessons and challenges
Chete, Louis N.; Adeoti, J. O.; Adeyinka, F. M.; … - 2014
while the manufacturing sector contributed only 4 per cent to GDP in 2011. The economic transformation agenda, otherwise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233106
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Industrialization in developing countries : is it related to poverty reduction?
Erumban, Abdul Azeez; Vries, Gaaitzen J. de - 2021
change and productivity growth in manufacturing. An attribution exercise suggests that structural change and agricultural … productivity growth in manufacturing accounts for poverty reduction in developing Asia, but not in sub-Saharan Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799097
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Development as diffusion : manufacturing productivity and sub-Saharan Africa's missing middle
Gelb, Alan; Meyer, Christian J.; Ramachandran, Vijaya - 2014
. The roots for these factors lie in sub-Saharan Africa's geography and its distinctive history, including the legacy of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242043
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Industrial agglomeration in Myanmar
Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda; Zille, Helge - 2019
manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar. We find that being located in an industrial zone associates with higher labour productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978505
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Agglomeration and productivity in South Africa : evidence from firm-level data
Amusa, Hammed Adedeji; Wabiri, Njeri; Fadiran, David … - 2019
Using comprehensive, anonymized tax administrative data for the 2008-14 period, we examine firm-level productivity in South Africa. Measures of firm-level productivity are included in a spatial autoregressive model that assesses spillovers from total factor productivity originating from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129328
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Energy consumption and carbon emission-based productivity change and industrialization in post-reform China
Shiyi, Chen; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U. - 2010
The paper investigates the determinants of productivity growth in China. It also analyses the sustainability of the country's industrial growth by estimating sectoral productivity, accounting for energy usage and emission since the start of the market-oriented reforms in the late 1970s. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662264
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Productivity growth effects of structural reforms : evidence from developing countries
Gomado, Kwamivi - 2022
Which structural reforms affect labour productivity growth in developing countries? This paper answers this question by combining the local projections method and the inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (LP-IPWRA) method. We find that financial reforms, trade reforms, and product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013349393
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Do firms learn by exporting or learn to export? : evidence from Senegalese manufacturing plant
Fatou, Cissé; Choi, Ji Eun - 2015
and productivity impacts on manufacturing sectors in Senegal. Using unique firm-level panel data for the period 1998 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284923
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Corporate social responsibility in a competitive business environment
Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda - 2016
Using a specially designed survey instrument in combination with a representative sample of Vietnamese enterprises, we explore firm-level efficiency effects of corporate social responsibility. We find a positive relationship between adoption of corporate social responsibility initiatives and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440958
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Was Kuznets right? : new evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequality
Baymul, Çinar; Sen, Kunal - 2019
Kuznets hypothesis, we find that the movement of workers to manufacturing unambiguously decreases income inequality … structural transformation than manufacturing driven structural transformation. Overall, our findings confirm the positive … development effects that structural transformation relating to manufacturing may have in developing countries, not merely through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137963