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Bangladesh economy, aiming to tackle inequality and promote inclusive growth. …The Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of … overwhelmingly salient component of Bangladesh's export composition, this is due primarily to the rapid expansion of the ready …
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This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the …, unemployment, and inequality forged under the past race-based colonial and apartheid regimes remain stagnant. The future of South …
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inequality increased until the late 1980s, then gradually declined, reaching a level in 2017 that was well below the 1981 level …-shaped relationship between average income and inequality but suggest no long-term 'Kuznetsian tension' between the rate of structural … change and the level of inequality. …
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devises an agglomeration indicator to measure economic diversification and to compare Bangladesh with other key economies. In …. Despite Bangladesh's astounding growth over the past 15 years, diversification has been somewhat slower than expected for its …
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Growth in South Asia has not resulted in structural transformation and increase of productive capacities. This paper presents a methodology to identify the opportunities for countries in South Asia to build their productive capacities and promote structural transformation through the emulation...
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the relationship between manufacturing value added or employment shares and trends in income inequality. In Indonesia …
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transition from the import-substitution industrialization strategy to the outward-oriented neoliberal model of high inequality, a … accounts for two-thirds of total employment in the economy. The trend of persistent deindustrialization and high inequality is …
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In this paper we look at the economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the context of structural transformation. We use Hidalgo et al.'s (2007) concept of product space to show the evolution of the region's productive structure, and discuss the opportunities for growth and...
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This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast structural transformation toward industrialization, manufacturing in particular. Workers moved out of agriculture into manufacturing, and the sector diversified and upgraded its...
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Mozambique is among the world's least complex economies. By systematically accounting for both supply- and demand-side factors, we identify new products and sectors that can help to diversify and upgrade its economy. In a supply-side analysis, we use network methods from the literature on...
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