zones in their respective legal and institutional frameworks in the 2000s as mechanisms for catalysing industrialization and … employment creation by means of domestic and foreign investments. Using a case-study approach, we find that special economic … zones in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, are largely latent drivers of growth and employment hampered by inadequate …

-cutting blockages to growth. In East Asia, this approach was able to build on a broader national industrialization trajectory. In … their promises of improved infrastructure and financial incentives, and do little to promote broader industrialization …

This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … associated with employment growth. Process innovations may have a positive effect, but also have the potential to reduce the …

regional trade integration, is bound to boost exports and enhance resilience. …We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Kenya's foreign trade using quarterly trade data for the period 2019 … to the second quarter of 2021. The exploratory analysis shows that growth of Kenya's merchandise exports remained …

Is the emphasis placed in trade and industry policy-making in developing countries on the share of domestic value …-added ('value-added ratio') in exports consistent with the objective of achieving economic development through an export … industry in Thailand with an emphasis on employment generation and equity. The analysis is based on a balanced panel data set …

employment in the country, while the agriculture, mining, and manufacturing sectors have declined in relative importance. While …-intensive and higher value-added manufacturing, while also promoting employment-enhancing services subsectors. …

We focus on special characteristics of the manufacturing sector, in terms of employment generation and productivity … the relationship between manufacturing value added or employment shares and trends in income inequality. In Indonesia … have been mixed. Indonesia's structural transformation pattern has shifted, from 'upgrading industrialization' before the …