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What explains Latin America's low share of industrial employment?
Sinha, Rishabh - 2019
This paper investigates the relative importance of different channels in explaining the low share of industrial employment in Latin America relative to the economies that employ a large share of the workforce in industry. Differences in domestic final consumption shares play a pivotal role and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008289
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Manufacturing in structural change in Africa
Nguimkeu, Pierre; Zeufack, Albert G. - 2019
deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares … heterogeneity across Sub-Saharan Africa subregions, with the Southern region being the only subregion to have witnessed … also explores the potential role of the Dutch disease and resource curse hypotheses in understanding Sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114107
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Understanding economic growth in Ghana in comparative perspective
Geiger, Michael; Trenczek, Jan; Wacker, Konstantin - 2019
Ghana has experienced a decade of solid and exceptionally high growth. Between 2005 and 2015, income nearly doubled. This paper analyzes the factors driving this impressive growth performance, using tools such as structural change decompositions and growth regressions. For the comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002718
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Bringing the Concept of Climate-Smart Agriculture to Life : Insights from CSA Country Profiles Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Sova, Chase Anthony - 2018
Bringing the Concept of Climate-Smart Agriculture to Life: Insights from CSA Country Profiles across Africa, Asia, and … the agricultural sectors of more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645808
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Urbanization and Development : Is Latin America and the Caribbean Different from the Rest of the World?
Roberts, Mark - 2017
Two long-established stylized facts in the urban and development economics literatures are that: (a) a country's level of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246227
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Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View
Enache, Maria - 2016
This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245814
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Area-Based Development, Local Institutions and Climate Adaptation : Comparative Analysis from West Africa and Latin America
Agrawal, Arun - 2011
This report on adaptation to climate variability and change draws together the conclusions of a series of comparative case studies undertaken for the Area-Based Development and Climate Change (ABDCC) project of the Social Development Department of the World Bank. The report contributes to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247823
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Electricity access and structural transformation : evidence from Brazil's electrification
Perez-Sebastian, Fidel; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs; Féres, José - 2020
This study proposes a novel supply-side mechanism driving economic structural transformation: grid electrification. Increasing electricity availability affects the reallocation of inputs to more productive activities through generating higher returns and lowering entry costs in sectors with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230801
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Productivity growth and efficiency dynamics of Korean structural transformation
Jeong, Hyeok - 2020
This paper documents the sources of the Republic of Korea's economic growth, as well as the associated productivity growth and efficiency dynamics during its process of structural transformation from 1970 to 2016. The analysis includes land as a separate production factor to sort out the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257002
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From farms to factories and firms : structural transformation and labor productivity growth in Malaysia
Rahman, Amanina Abdur; Schmillen, Achim - 2020
This study aims to provide a quantitative and integrated analysis of long-term structural transformation and labor productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that take account of the static and dynamic efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390628