and economic development. The paper explores these novel constellations in employment and value added, global trade, and … sectors. New employment challenges may be emerging for participants in a global value chain due to the debated threat of …

/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and … change and productivity growth in manufacturing. An attribution exercise suggests that structural change and agricultural … productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that …

the manufacturing employment share hump-shaped path. The present study develops a theoretical model to analyze the … sector. This discrepancy in technological proximity between sectors influences the differential productivity growth rates in …