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Industrial Policy in the 21st Century – the Challenge for Africa

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Developing Fiscal States in Africa

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The Economic Transformation Database (ETD): content, sources, and methods

This note introduces the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database (ETD), which provides time series of employment and real and nominal value added by 12 sectors in 51 countries for the period 1990–2018...

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Do more diversified suppliers rebound faster than concentrated suppliers in times of shocks?: Insights from Kenya

In this background note, we examine how different firms and sectors rebound or prevail in crises...

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