also dialectically reshaped the goals and patterns of development during the post-Second World War period. The region is …This paper identifies historic patterns in the dialectic between nationalism and development across various East, South …, and Southeast Asian nations. Nationalism as the rationale for development is used by regimes to achieve high levels of …

Despite Tanzania's rapid recent growth, the vast majority of employment creation has been in informal services. This … finds that subsectors such as trade services contribute significantly to employment despite their relatively low … paper addresses the role that different subsectors of formal and informal services have played in Tanzania's growth. It …

Cameroon is an example of a developing country where the transition from agriculture to services has defied standard … the tertiary sector affect women's employment. Decomposition analysis based on 461 Cameroonian firms indicates a 6.2 per … cent feminization pattern over the past decade, primarily driven by increased female employment in wholesale and …

view that mineral resources create a dependency that might not be conducive to economic and social development. … development for the years 1996-2014. The contribution of minerals and mining to gross domestic product and exports reached a …

perceptions in the employment decision-making process. Crucial to the analysis is the introduction of the aid-industry/development … largest share of skilled jobseekers opt for early-career employment working for a donor organisation, INGO, or NGO in the … development sector. The results show that cognitive ability matters for occupational choice, as higher ability workers are more …

growth: tourism, horticulture and information technology-enabled services. Sector-specific constraints are identified …

The South African services sector is large and growing. This coupled with declining employment shares in manufacturing … and mining (i.e. deindustrialization) suggests that South Africa is a de facto service-orientated economy. Employment … patterns in services reveal a segmentation that is characterized by high-productivity, high-wage services, low …

This paper reviews the role of services in development and growth, the potential role of trade in services as a driver … of the productivity performance of sectors that use services as inputs, and the links between services policies and … domestic trade costs. Barriers to trade in services have direct as well as indirect effects on cross-border trade and …

into services has a positive impact on inequality across our set of countries at an early stage of structural … transformation and a negative effect at a later stage, suggesting that the Kuznets postulate may apply more for services driven … development effects that structural transformation relating to manufacturing may have in developing countries, not merely through …

The services sector is dominant and continues to experience unprecedented growth in many developing economies. However … identifies the underlying factors that explain services sector growth accelerations and episodes in developing countries, and how … these factors may differ across services types (market services and non-market services) and regions. Using the Economic …