while the manufacturing sector contributed only 4 per cent to GDP in 2011. The economic transformation agenda, otherwise …

sectors where investment has a major impact on growth of the manufacturing industry. … the world. Using AidData for 2000-13, this paper examines the effects of aid to productive sectors on manufacturing growth … of the manufacturing sector, with complementary effects from allocations to economic services and infrastructures …

Using the method of Caballero and Lyons (1990, 1992), I examine detailed Swedish manufacturing firm-level data on … technology drive the business cycle statistically outperforms the Caballero-Lyons model. This finding suggests that high …-frequency random shifts in technology are more important for movements in firms productivity than are external economies. …