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and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 …
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It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However, evidence suggests that basic manufacturing industry is stagnant. This paper proposes a mechanism that ties these two trends together. A big-push type of model, featuring...
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, growth, and industrialization. It is shown that the counterfactual prediction of new growth theories regarding a positive … process of industrialization, trade policy can influence long-run growth rates even in non-scale growth models. …
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better use of existing time series data than historical national accounting. To investigate industrialization we propose to …
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Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic …
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industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
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industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
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Industrialization occupies a central place in the rich tapestry of development theory and practice. Although that place … income per capita can only occur through industrialization. This paper argues that it is becoming increasingly difficult for … most developing countries to achieve rapid growth through industrialization, and especially through export oriented …
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typically linked to industrialization enhance the attractiveness of a location and result to population increases. The inverse … seek better forts. Iligan City experienced rapid urbanization for almost five decades due to industrialization. However …
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decline have fallen as obviously. These results are consistent with the idea that industrialization in employment terms has … been more important for eventual prosperity than has industrialization in output terms; and that high manufacturing … industrialization may have become more difficult. …
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