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The shares of manufacturing in value added and employment across a range of developing economies peaked at lower levels of per capita income compared with their high-income, early-industrializer precursors. Based on the statistical analysis of input-output tables and firm-level data, the paper...
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the world urgently need to see the big picture if they are to deal with the specific challenges and opportunities they …
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Using data on net exports and factor endowments for more than 100 countries, this paper studies the relationship between factor endowments and comparative advantage in 28 manufacturing sectors between 1975 and 2010. The authors allow for systematic technological differences across countries,...
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This paper uses firm-level data to assess whether telecommunication services are general-purpose technologies (technologies that benefit a large segment of the economy and have long-lasting effect). It finds that only Internet services are so: firm growth and productivity are much higher when...
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The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data …
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with world prices since 2000, and then explains the difference by examining the protection enjoyed by these industries … which were often two or three times the equivalent world price. Tightening of price ceilings and some liberalization have … taken place recently, but consumers have continued to pay above world prices for sugar and edible oil in 2014. The paper …
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herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also … influence the urbanization process. In fact, the relationship between industrialization and urbanization is absent in Sub …
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imitation sector. The process of industrialization increases the demand for high-skill labor, inducing individuals to invest in …
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industrialization, diversification, and trade integration in many countries, particularly in East Asia. However, in the African context …
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This paper focuses on the estimation of skill/industry premiums and labor force composition at the national and sector levels in seven East Asian countries with the objective of providing a comprehensive analysis of trends in demand for skills in the region. The paper addresses the following...
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