. It is expected that these industries will contribute to economic diversification and social development, not least by … diversification of the local economy. The country urgently needs institutional changes that support broader and rural-focused private …

paper explores ways to achieve diversification in a resource-rich economy. It describes the relative price changes that … diversification, through the development of "industries without smokestacks" and investments in knowledge. …

interest of multi-sectors, including foreign and non-state investors. Consequently, the capacity, output and productivity of …

the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing …

/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and … change and productivity growth in manufacturing. An attribution exercise suggests that structural change and agricultural … productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that …

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an … extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self … productivity in foreign-owned firms and private domestic firms separately and find the former benefit more from exporting …

-level characteristics including productivity. …