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Bangladesh economy, aiming to tackle inequality and promote inclusive growth. …The Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of … overwhelmingly salient component of Bangladesh's export composition, this is due primarily to the rapid expansion of the ready …
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This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the …, unemployment, and inequality forged under the past race-based colonial and apartheid regimes remain stagnant. The future of South …
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inequality increased until the late 1980s, then gradually declined, reaching a level in 2017 that was well below the 1981 level …-shaped relationship between average income and inequality but suggest no long-term 'Kuznetsian tension' between the rate of structural … change and the level of inequality. …
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the relationship between manufacturing value added or employment shares and trends in income inequality. In Indonesia …
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transition from the import-substitution industrialization strategy to the outward-oriented neoliberal model of high inequality, a … accounts for two-thirds of total employment in the economy. The trend of persistent deindustrialization and high inequality is …
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Tanzania ranks among the leading stars of the 'African growth miracle', but a sector that has been largely absent from the Tanzania success story is industry. Although growth of manufacturing has outpaced economic growth over the past decade, relative to international norms and its ambitious...
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Mozambique is among the world's least complex economies. By systematically accounting for both supply- and demand-side factors, we identify new products and sectors that can help to diversify and upgrade its economy. In a supply-side analysis, we use network methods from the literature on...
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The management of revenues from exhaustible natural resources involves a number of challenges. In this paper, we argue that the standard policy advice to managers of resource revenues has been dominated by short-termism and the lack of a perspective on economic development and structural...
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Industrial transformation of Asia arguably constitutes the most surprising and dramatic change in the global economy in the last fifty years. This paper provides an outline of some of the most important trends of this development and analyses selected national industrial policies that promoted...
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This study examines the structural transformation-inclusive growth nexus for Ghana. The data cover the post-independence period for Ghana and are phased into three periods: the post-independence period to the start of the economic recovery programme (ERP) and structural adjustment programme...
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