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Manufacturing productivity, deindustrialization, and reindustrialization
Tregenna, Fiona - 2011
many countries have actually been deindustrializing. This paper analyses deindustrialization experiences internationally … importance of robust industrial policies if countries are to move from deindustrialization to reindustrialization …. -- deindustrialization ; reindustrialization ; manufacturing ; employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306507
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Enterprise agglomeration, output prices, and physical productivity : firm-level evidence from Ethiopia
Siba, Eyerusalem; Söderbom, Måns; Bigsten, Arne; … - 2012
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 the agglomeration of firms that produce a given product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628925
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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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Dancing on the grid: electricity crises, manufacturing energy vulnerability, and jobs in South Africa
Ndubuisi, Gideon Onyewuchi; Avenyo, Elvis Korku; … - 2024
South Africa's current electricity crises have worsened, placing the country on an uncertain and turbulent economic trajectory. To identify the manufacturing sub-sectors that are most vulnerable to this crises, we use the input-output matrices for the period between 1993 and 2021 to develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563042
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Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth : the case of Chile
Solimano, Andrés; Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2019
the paper shows a premature deindustrialization process since the 1970s, continuing to the present. We observe in the … accounts for two-thirds of total employment in the economy. The trend of persistent deindustrialization and high inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161611
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Should Africa industrialize?
Page, John M. - 2011
Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 and 2005 the size, diversity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269834
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Premature deindustrialization and income inequality in middle-income countries
Ravindran, Rekha; Babu, Suresh M - 2021
This paper examines the income inequality implications of a 'premature deindustrialization' trend in middle …-income countries. To identify the premature deindustrialization phase, we arrive at five conditions based on the trends in employment … and value-added share of manufacture. Among these five conditions, the first and second examine the deindustrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423067
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Climate change and industrial policy
Naudé, Wim - 2011
This paper explores the implications of climate change for industrial policy (IP). Five implications are discussed, namely the need for international coordination of IPs; for putting human development, and not emission targets, as the overriding objective of low-carbon IP; of stimulating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381960
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Industrial development and growth in Nigeria : lessons and challenges
Chete, Louis N.; Adeoti, J. O.; Adeyinka, F. M.; … - 2014
The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. The primary sector, in particular, the oil and gas sector, dominates the gross domestic product accounting for over 95 per cent of export earnings and about 85 per cent of government revenue between 2011 and 2012. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233106
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Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors : an analysis with administrative data
Fedderke, Johannes W.; Obikili, Nonso; Viegi, Nicola - 2016
This paper uses newly available firm-level tax data to evaluate the market structure in South African manufacturing sectors in the period 2010-12. To describe the market structure we compute markups for South African manufacturing firms and concentration indexes for 4-digit manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458072