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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 …
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The paper looks at the evolution of industry in Uganda examining drivers and constraints since the pre-colonial period …, size and distribution of industry are discussed in light of the laissez fair paradigm. The non-direct interventionist …
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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...
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sectors where investment has a major impact on growth of the manufacturing industry. …
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South Africa's grid remains unstable and characterized by frequent power cuts. Employing a generalized difference-in-difference approach, this paper examines the implications of South Africa's electricity crises on jobs, capital investment, and exporting across manufacturing firms in the...
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The main characteristics of 'the Swedish model' are arguably related to the country's knowledge-intensive industry and …
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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In the past, research on changes in relative importance among broad three sectors - ;agriculture, industry, and service …
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