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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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equilibrium fictions. In the framework of this paper, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth …
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Co-operation and Development/World Trade Organization's Trade in Value Added Database to assess Brazil's current …
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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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This paper reviews city-based industrialization across Ethiopia to understand (a) its importance in driving net job …
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This paper examines how the dismantling of coercive institutions associated with the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 affected the distribution of rents from natural resource exports. It identifies the interplay between coercive institutions and natural resource rents as an important...
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