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This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia's mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic … 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 …
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This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and structural change-the reallocation of workers across...
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have been mixed. Indonesia's structural transformation pattern has shifted, from 'upgrading industrialization' before the … crisis to 'stalled industrialization' afterwards. Both periods saw weak Kuznetsian tension, but patterns of structural … political economy of development policymaking since the crisis. …
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. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth … productivity labour in the informal service sector. The paper suggests a move away from the dual-economy to a three … require accelerated agricultural productivity growth, a modernized informal service sector, and effective industrialization …
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This paper argues that official development assistance (foreign aid) is partly responsible for the lack of structural change in Africa. Africa's development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical constraints to private investment, infrastructure and...
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This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the present day. We find that South Africa experienced growth-enhancing structural transformation until the early 1970s, before entering a period of premature deindustrialization....
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During 1985-2015, globalization intensified the factor-endowment-related pattern of sectoral specialization. In skill-abundant developed countries, manufacturing became more skill-intensive. In land-scarce developing East Asia, labour-intensive manufacturing expanded, especially in China. In...
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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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on a path of industrialization. In this study, we empirically examine the impact of digitalization and global value …
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the transformation of low- and middle-income economies out of agriculture. In our main specification industrialization …
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