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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...
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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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The evolution of industry in Uganda
Obwona, Marios B.; Shinyekwa, Isaac; Kiiza, Julius; … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233570
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Dancing on the grid: electricity crises, manufacturing energy vulnerability, and jobs in South Africa
Ndubuisi, Gideon Onyewuchi; Avenyo, Elvis Korku; … - 2024
South Africa's current electricity crises have worsened, placing the country on an uncertain and turbulent economic trajectory. To identify the manufacturing sub-sectors that are most vulnerable to this crises, we use the input-output matrices for the period between 1993 and 2021 to develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563042
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Resource misallocation and total factor productivity : manufacturing firms in South Africa
Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tsebe, Mpho Asnath - 2019
Misallocation of labour and capital can greatly reduce aggregate productivity. In this study, we use tax administrative data to examine the extent of resource misallocation in the South African context. In addition, we zoom in on how different government incentives affect the allocation (or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012397
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Kuznets in the twenty-first century : Mexico and United States compared
Paul, Saumik; Sen, Kunal - 2025
. Movement of workers from other sectors to manufacturing and industry in the bottom income quantiles, and to services in the … manufacturing and industry in the top income quantiles, and to business and finance services in the upper middle income quantiles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015329729
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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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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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Development as diffusion : manufacturing productivity and sub-Saharan Africa's missing middle
Gelb, Alan; Meyer, Christian; Ramachandran, Vijaya - 2014
We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242043
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Industrial policy and development in Ethiopia : evolution and present experimentation
Gebreeyesus, Mulu - 2013
There has recently been a resurgence of interest in industrial policy. This paper examines the choices, implementation processes, and outcomes of the Ethiopian present industrial policy. The country represents an excellent case study of recent industrial policy experimentation in Africa as it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010200366