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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 dynamicsLecture
MOOC: Industrial policy for the 21st century – the challenge for Africa
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Mozambique: Improving our understanding of the potential of manufacturing
Mozambique’s manufacturing industry is facing many challenges. Nevertheless, we should not underestimate its linkages to the rest of the economy and its potential in terms of job creation and structural transformation...
Manufacturing firms Manufacturing Manufacturing industriesNews
Press release: Mozambican business environment continues to pose challenges for manufacturing firmsPress release: Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme to launch report at public forum on 23 April 2018 Maputo — Mozambican manufacturing firms continue to face logistical, regulatory, and financial constraints that hinder their ability to...
Manufacturing firms Manufacturing Manufacturing industriesJournal Article
The Dynamics of Exporting and Innovation: Evidence from the Tunisian Manufacturing SectorPart of Journal Special Issue Learning to Compete
Manufacturing industries Learning by exporting Self-selectionJournal Article
Labor-use efficiency in Tunisian manufacturing industriesThis paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over a period of 25 years, from 1971 to 1996...
Commercial policy Labour demand Manufacturing industriesJournal Article
Measuring industry coagglomeration and identifying the driving forcesUnderstanding industry agglomeration and its driving forces is critical for the formulation of industrial policy in developing countries. Crucial to this process is the definition and measurement of agglomeration...
Industrial policy Labour market Manufacturing industriesBlog
Made in Africa - Learning to Compete in Industry: Policy proposals
One of the strengths of the new UNU-WIDER and Brookings book Made in Africa is that, in the best sense of the word, its proposals are debatable. It provides evidence and arguments for particular policies...
Economic development International trade Manufacturing industriesWorking Paper
Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors: An analysis with administrative dataThis paper uses newly available firm-level tax data to evaluate the market structure in South African manufacturing sectors in the period 2010–12...
Business Manufacturing industries PricingBlog
Understanding FDI spillover mechanisms
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been praised as an important development tool, especially for countries at low levels of industrial development...
Economic development International trade Foreign investmentsBlog
Industrial clusters: Who benefits?
Manufacturing production in both developed and developing economies tends to be highly geographically concentrated in cities and industrial clusters...
Competition Economic development Industrial managementBlog
Celebrating 30 years of research for development The celebration of the 30 th Anniversary of UNU-WIDER presented the ideal opportunity to look back, take stock, and plan ahead...
Economic development Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Gross national productBlog
Regional Industrialization and Integration in Southern Africa - Reporting from TIPS Annual Forum The white-painted cluster of traditional style buildings might suggest that this was a farm on the South African veldt...
Automotive industry Carbon tax Economic integrationResearch Brief
Clustering, competition, and spillover effects in CambodiaWhat types of businesses benefit or suffer due to geographic clustering?...
Economic development Industrial productivity Informal sectorWorking Paper
Liberalized trade policy and inequality: Evidence from Post-Multi-Fibre Arrangement India and some theoretical issuesThe phased elimination of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement has been one of the most compelling trade policy reforms of the early twenty-first century, and has brought in significant changes in the industrial structures of the countries of the global south...
Econometric models (Economic development) Equality and inequality Industrial policyWorking Paper
The Performance of the Manufacturing Sector in Tanzania: Challenges and the Way ForwardTanzania’s industrial sector has evolved through various stages since independence in 1961, from nascent and undiversified to state-led import substitution industrialization, and subsequently to de-industrialization under the structural adjustm...
Business enterprises Economic development International trade