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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...

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Zambia Economic Brief, September 2018 : An Agro-Led Structural Transformation

World Bank Group - 2018

The latest economic brief highlights that Zambia's rising macroeconomic imbalances, high debt and associated costs of debt service are crowding out private sector growth. The economy is expected to expand by 3.3 percent in 2018 in 2018 compared to 3.4 percent in 2017. Agricultures offers Zambia...

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Pakistan at 100 : Structural Transformation

Sharma, Siddharth - 2019

This policy note was prepared in parallel to the report Pakistan at 100 - Shaping the Future. The report Pakistan at 100 discusses options to accelerate and sustain growth in Pakistan so that the country becomes an upper middle-income country when it turns hundred years old in 2047. This policy...

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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...

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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

Mc Millan, Margaret - 2017

Developing countries made considerable gains during the first decade of the 21st century. Their economies grew at unprecedented rates, resulting in large reduction in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more recently that progress has slowed with an economic...

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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...

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Regional Development in the South of Mexico : Infrastructure for Growth and Poverty Alleviation

World Bank Group - 2002

This report examines the role of infrastructure in explaining why the region lags so far behind the rest of the country. More importantly, it looks at how improved infrastructure may help the region catch up. Infrastructure is examined here through its impact on social as well as economic...

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Harnessing the Diaspora for Development in Europe and Central Asia

Heleniak, Timothy - 2011

Migration has become an important phenomenon in many countries of Europe and Central Asia. The development implications … of migration in the region were first examined in the flagship report "Migration and Remittances: Eastern Europe and the … important, from various aspects, to practically all countries of the Europe and Central Asia region. The role that the diaspora …

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The exchange rate : why it matters for structural transformation and growth in Ethiopia

Haile, Fiseha - 2019

Ethiopia has achieved sustained high growth for more than a decade. At the same time, the country has been facing several economic challenges, including falling exports, chronic foreign currency shortages, as well as a slow pace of structural transformation. In recent years, the already...

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Long-term shifts in Korean manufacturing and plant-level productivity dynamics

Lee, Yoonsoo - 2020

The Korean manufacturing sector has undergone active structural transformation in the past few decades. In particular, the composition of core manufacturing products has changed over time. In the 1970s, textiles, which are used to produce fabric, clothes, apparel, and shoes, were the main...

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