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Scoping study on the evolution of industry in Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014
This paper chronicles the evolution of industry in Ghana over the post-independence era from an inward over … resource endowments. Over the last couple of years, industry in Ghana, dominated since independence by the manufacturing … and gas. Industry is mainly dominated by micro and small firms, privately-owned and mainly located within urban areas in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337614
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How many manufacturing firms are there in Mozambique?
Schou, Søren; Cardoso, José - 2014
This paper addresses the issue of poor data on Mozambican manufacturing firms. A new dataset (the merged manufacturing database) is merged from provincial industrial databases from each of Mozambique's 11 provinces. The new dataset is assessed by comparing it to the latest manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349433
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Global supply chains in Chinese industrialization : impact on waste scavenging in developing countries
Medina, Martín Fernando - 2011
China has undergone remarkable economic growth spearheaded by industrialization. Chinese industry demands a wide … developed global supply chains, which link two apparently separate worlds: its industry and millions of scavengers that recover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381953
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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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Manufacturing and economic development
Szirmai, Adam - 2011
This paper examines the theoretical and empirical evidence for the hypothesis that manufacturing is the main engine of growth in developing countries. The paper opens with an overview of the main arguments supporting the engine of growth hypothesis and then examines each of these arguments using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381971
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Emerging patterns of manufacturing structural change
Haraguchi, Nobuya; Rezonja, Gorazd - 2011
In the past, research on changes in relative importance among broad three sectors - ;agriculture, industry, and service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009261005
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Manufacturing productivity, deindustrialization, and reindustrialization
Tregenna, Fiona - 2011
In considering pathways to industrialization in the twenty-first century, cognisance needs to be taken of the fact that many countries have actually been deindustrializing. This paper analyses deindustrialization experiences internationally, by decomposing changes in the level and share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306507
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Do firms learn by exporting or learn to export? : evidence from Senegalese manufacturing plant
Fatou, Cissé; Choi, Ji Eun - 2015
The increasing quantity of literature investigating the impact of trade openness on firm efficiency has not yet provided a definite prediction of the direction of causality. This paper investigates how the relationship between exporting and productivity impacts on manufacturing sectors in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284923
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Enterprise agglomeration, output prices, and physical productivity : firm-level evidence from Ethiopia
Siba, Eyerusalem; Söderbom, Måns; Bigsten, Arne; … - 2012
significant relationship between agglomeration and firm-level output prices and productivity. -- industry agglomeration …
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 … least in developing country contexts. -- industry agglomeration ; technology spillovers ; labour market pooling ; Vietnam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628930