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Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco : subnational insights

Akim, Al-mouksit; Sahel, Wissal - 2023

This paper aims to revisit the pace and patterns of structural change in Morocco with a renewed perspective focusing on subnational trends to document the macro patterns. In that perspective, we first build a within-country sectoral longitudinal dataset covering employment and value added (VA)...

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The role of foreign direct investment and trade in urbanization in developing Asia : structural changes after the global financial crisis

Sinha, Madhabendra; Tirtosuharto, Darius - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 343-362

A dynamic between foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade, and the level of urbanization, has been … observed in many developing countries. This study seeks to fill a literature gap on the extent that FDI and international trade … impact developing Asian economies through urbanization. The study explores the relationship between FDI, international trade …

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The effects of the catch-up mechanism on the structural transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa

Ssozi, John; Bbaale, Edward - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 4/111, pp. 1-27

Structural transformation is one of the processes of productivity growth urgently needed in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study uses the catch-up mechanism to analyze how international contacts and domestic absorptive capacity constraints are shaping the pattern of structural transformation in...

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The effects of FDI liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change : evidence from China

Erten, Bilge; Leight, Jessica; Zhu, Lianming - 2023

How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in …, exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in FDI liberalization induced by multiple waves of regulatory relaxation. We find that … services for both men and women. Exposure to FDI liberalization also reduces the probability of marriage, and induces a decline …

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The Effects of FDI Liberalization on Structural Transformation and Demographic Change : Evidence from China

Erten, Bilge; Leight, Jessica; Zhu, Lianming - 2023

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Asian Experiences with Global and Regional Value Chain Integration and Structural Change

Stöllinger, Roman - 2018

This research report investigates the relationship between the growing integration into global and regional value chains (VCs) and structural change in the South and South East Asian (SEA) region. The analysis includes a sample of 60 developed and developing countries covered in the OECD's...

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Structural transformation and international trade : evidence from the China shock

Nedoncelle, Clément; Wolfersberger, Julien - 2023

How does international trade affect structural transformation in developing countries? We use data on sectoral allocation of labour and value-added in 46 developing economies over the period 1995-2017 and exploit for identification plausibly exogenous variation in manufacturing imports from...

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Industries without smokestacks : telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

Frischtak, Cláudio R. - 2017

This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...

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Multinationals and structural transformation

Alviarez, Vanessa; Chen, Cheng; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya; … - 2023

their affiliates in China to an exogenous change in China's openness to foreign direct investment (FDI). We find that in … industries where inward FDI was encouraged, Japan MNC's affiliates in China experienced increases in their employment. We also …

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Multinationals and structural transformation

Alviarez, Vanessa; Chen, Cheng; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya; … - 2021

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