the "engine of growth." It is in the context of industrialization that openness played an important role in East Asia … exchange) and industrialization. Part 2 of the paper reviews the role of Asia's developmental states in consciously …This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast …

productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that … productivity growth in manufacturing accounts for poverty reduction in developing Asia, but not in sub-Saharan Africa. …/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and …

global forces driving economic, institutional, and social change. These include digital industrialization, global value …

developed western world by going through three developmental stages sequentially; namely, a proto-industrialization in the rural …, economies stuck in the low-income trap or middle-income trap did not follow the above sequential stages of industrialization …. For example, many Eastern European and Latin American countries after WWII jumped to the stage of heavy industrialization …