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Industries without smokestacks: Mozambique country case studyFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Industries Exports PolicyPolicy Brief
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Industries without smokestacks: Mozambique country case studyUnder the current international economic conditions, where Asian countries are strong competitors in the manufacturing commodities, low-income countries like Mozambique could attempt to compete in industries without smokestacks...
Industries Exports PolicyBook
Manufacturing Transformation: Comparative Studies of Industrial Development in Africa and Emerging AsiaThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Competition Econometrics GlobalizationBook
Made in Africa: Learning to Compete in IndustryOver the past forty years, industry and business interests have moved increasingly from the developed to the developing world, yet Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about 3 percent in 1970 to less than 2 percent in 2014...
Competition Econometrics GlobalizationBook Chapter
Emerging Evidence on the Relative Importance of Sectoral Sources of Growth in Sub-Saharan AfricaPurposeful, well-targeted and successful transformation policies will be elusive for a country or region that does not understand the relative importance of its sectoral sources of growth...
Economic development Industries Service industriesBlog
Inequality in South Africa - An Interview with Murray Leibbrandt
At the UNU-WIDER Inequality conference September 2014 we interviewed Murray Leibbrandt, Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town on issues of inequality in South Africa...
Children Economic policy EducationWorking Paper
From Productivity to Exporting or Vice Versa?: Evidence from the Tunisian Manufacturing SectorIn this paper, we explore the link between firm productivity and exporting using three firm level datasets of 1323 Tunisian manufacturing firms from 2004 to 2006...
IndustriesJournal Article
Measuring the Carbon Intensity of the South African EconomyWe estimate the carbon intensity of industries, products and households in South Africa using data from a high resolution supply-use table...
Industries Natural resources Nonrenewable natural resourcesBook Chapter
Emerging Patterns of Structural Change in ManufacturingFrom the book: Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Economic development Industrial policy IndustriesBook Chapter
Manufacturing and Economic DevelopmentFrom the book: Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Economic development Industries ManufacturingBook Chapter
European Transition at Twenty: Assessing Progress in Countries and SectorsFrom the book: Economies in Transition
Commerce Economic development Industrial organization (Economic theory)Working Paper
Manufacturing and Economic DevelopmentThis paper examines the theoretical and empirical evidence for the hypothesis that manufacturing is the main engine of growth in developing countries...
Economic development Industries ManufacturingWorking Paper
Emerging Evidence on the Relative Importance of Sectoral Sources of Growth in Sub-Saharan AfricaPurposeful, well-targeted and successful transformation policies will be elusive for a country or region that does not understand the relative importance of its sectoral sources of growth...
Economic development Industries Service industriesWorking Paper
Emerging Patterns of Manufacturing Structural ChangeIn the past, research on changes in relative importance among broad three sectors—agriculture, industry, and service—showed general patterns of a country’s structural transformation along with economic development...
Economic development Industrial policy IndustriesJournal Article
Structural Change, Technology, and Economic Growth: Brazil and the CIBS in a Comparative PerspectivePart of Journal Special Issue Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
Economic development Industries International trade