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Industrialization in developing countries: is it related to poverty reduction?This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth...
Poverty Production GrowthPolicy Brief
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Digital Technologies and Product Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Empirical Evidence from Indian Manufacturing FirmsThis article provides empirical evidence on the impact of digitalisation on product upgrading in global value chains (GVCs)...
Technology Global value chains ManufacturingBlog
India’s manufacturing and services value-chains are shifting South: A curse or a blessing?
Much has been written on India as an outlier in Global Value Chains (GVC)...
Structural transformation Manufacturing Global value chainsReport
Business Practice Intervention Survey: Descriptive ReportMyanmar’s manufacturing sector is at the heart of the country’s commercial landscape...
Business Firm survey Manufacturing firmsWorking Paper
Cash grants to manufacturers after Cyclone Idai: RCT evidence from MozambiqueIn March 2019, Cyclone Idai hit central Mozambique and caused widespread damage, including businesses in the enterprise sector...
Firms Manufacturing Natural disastersBook Chapter
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 itFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Stockholm Statement Industrial policy Dynamic comparative advantageNews
Press Release: New data reveals developing economies are bucking trend of de-industrialization
Economic Transformation Database Deindustrialization Economic transformation Blog
Sub-Saharan Africa had a manufacturing renaissance in 2010s – it’s a promising sign for the years aheadThe COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economy, with world output contracting at 3.5% in 2020, and no recovery likely before the fourth quarter of 2021...
Structural transformation Manufacturing Employment and IndustryWorking Paper
Labour turnover and workers' well-being in the Ethiopian manufacturing industryManufacturing industry expansion is a central part of Ethiopia’s growth and transformation agenda due to its potential for accelerated economic development and large-scale job creation, in particular for women...
female labour supply Occupational turnover Labour dynamicsWorking Paper
Constraints on the performance and competitiveness of Tanzania’s manufacturing exportsThis study sought to examine the main constraints to manufacturing export competitiveness in Tanzania...
Competitiveness Manufacturing ExportsWorking Paper
A manufacturing renaissance? Industrialization trends in the developing worldThis paper examines industrialization trends in developing countries...
Industrialization Economic Transformation Database ManufacturingWorking Paper
Premature deindustrialization and income inequality in middle-income countriesThis paper examines the income inequality implications of a ‘premature deindustrialization’ trend in middle-income countries...
Deindustrialization Income inequality Middle-income countriesWorking Paper
Informality and firm performance in MyanmarUsing a novel panel survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we compare the performance of manufacturing firms by three different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes...
Firms Informality MyanmarJournal Article
Was Kuznets Right?: New evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequalityWe examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960–2012...
Structural transformation Inequality KuznetsResearch Brief
Turnin’ it up a notch: Can foreign direct investment help South Africa increase the complexity of its exports?Since the end of apartheid, South Africa’s economic challenges have disrupted efforts to establish a society of inclusive growth and prosperity...
Economic complexity Foreign Direct Investment FDI