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From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first century inclusive growth strategy: Explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about it

From the book: Inequality in the Developing World

Stockholm Statement Industrial policy Dynamic comparative advantage
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From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy: Explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about it

Success in development over the past half-century was based on manufacturing-led export growth. Because the share of global employment in manufacturing will decline, manufacturing won’t play the same role in the coming decades...

Stockholm Statement Industrial policy Dynamic comparative advantage
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SA-TIED work stream 1: Enterprise development for job creation and growth

In this work stream, researchers from UNU-WIDER, National Treasury (NT) and the South African Revenue Service (SARS), will build and expand the tax administrative and other micro enterprise data available in South Africa, thereby developing these...

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Photo: ILRI / Mann Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

Theme: Transformation

Mozambique Employment generation Industrial policy
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