We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both … across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller … low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We summarize and analyse three sets of factors: First, the poor …

while the manufacturing sector contributed only 4 per cent to GDP in 2011. The economic transformation agenda, otherwise …

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. …/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and …

diversification. It assesses productive linkages and manufacturing competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization and … productivity and export competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization, that era was successful in terms of domestic …

resource endowments. Over the last couple of years, industry in Ghana, dominated since independence by the manufacturing … the form of industrial clusters. Patterns of labour productivity and wages within Ghana's industrial sector indicate the … competitive manufacturing sector; how to promote agro-based industrial development to ensure value-addition to manufactures and …

We use census panel data on Ethiopian manufacturing firms to analyze the connections between enterprise agglomeration …, firm-level output prices and physical productivity. We find a negative and statistically significant relationship between … given product in a location and the physical productivity of firms in the same location producing that product. These …

. -- household efficiency ; intra-household models ; experimental games ; Ethiopia …An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency …. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial …