deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares …'s manufacturing experience in resource rich countries …

While existing evidence in advanced economies suggests a possible role for technological innovation in job creation … technological as well as organizational innovation on firm level employment growth based on the theoretical model of Harrison … a positive direct role of innovation on the quantity of employment but at a decreasing rate as firms' transition to the …

associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries in which his family had …

This paper uses plant-level, panel data from the Ethiopian manufacturing census to estimate the effects of demand … specification, the estimated coefficients are consistent with all three predictions of the model-but only for one industry: cinder … blocks. In this industry, the expansion of the local market boosts industrywide total factor revenue productivity, while …

's participation in manufacturing global value chains. Due to lack of reliable data on skilled labor, skilled and unskilled labor … skills and manufacturing global value chains are available for 19 subsectors was constructed. A fixed-effect gravity model … foreign value-added products in their manufacturing exports. Finally, countries that receive net inflows of migrants tend to …

There is a global trend toward more production, use, and sale of services by manufacturing firms. This phenomenon is … known as the servicification of manufacturing. Services inputs as well as services activities within manufacturing firms … account for over half of the value of manufacturing exports. This paper uses a unique firm-level data set to analyze the link …

Africa's linkages in manufacturing global value chains are reasonably high compared with other developing regions … increased sharply in countries that are rich in natural resources. Moreover, the level and dynamics of linkages to manufacturing … cut across broad activity categories, including manufacturing textiles and apparel, metal products, transport equipment …

decade ago and moved the country's manufacturing sector toward higher value added, technology-based production with a unique … focus on automotive component manufacturing. Readers interested in learning how a small country located in the Balkans … (FDI) should find it useful. So will readers that are interested in industry specific strategies that go beyond first …

This paper investigates the current state of creation and adoption of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies within the Czech … manufacturing sector. The Czech Republic presents an interesting case study for I4.0 technology creation and adoption: the country … boasts one of the strongest manufacturing sectors in Europe relative to the size of its economy but suffers from low …

This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … Asia region can be divided into two groups, in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders … (Bangladesh and India) and laggards (Nepal and Pakistan). Leaders present higher rates of innovation activities than laggards and …