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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 managementBook 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 industriesWorking Paper
Clustering, Competition, and Spillover Effects: Evidence from CambodiaThe potential benefits of the geographical clustering of economic activity have been well documented in the literature, yet there is little empirical evidence quantifying these effects in developing country contexts...
Competition Economic development Industrial managementBook Chapter
Manufacturing and Economic DevelopmentFrom the book: Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Economic development Industries ManufacturingBlog
From the Editor's Desk (December 2011)
Tony Addison With the end of the year fast approaching, we bring you the last Angle of 2011. Here in Helsinki, the shortest day of the year is nearly upon us when we will have six hours of daylight...
Finance Climate change Right of propertyWorking 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 industriesBook Chapter
Beyond Industrialization: New Approaches to Development Strategy Based on the Service SectorFrom the book: The Rise of China and India
Agricultural industries Economic development IndustrializationBook Chapter
The Service Sector Revolution in India: A Quantitative AnalysisFrom the book: The Rise of China and India
Economic development International trade ProductivityBlog
Is Manufacturing Still the Main Engine of Growth in Developing Countries?
Adam Szirmai Since the late 18 th century, the manufacturing sector has been the main engine of growth and catch up. Presently, however, service sector value added accounts for over 70 per cent of GDP in advanced economies...
Economic growth Industrialization ConvergenceWorking Paper
Sectoral Engines of Growth in South Africa: An Analysis of Services and ManufacturingManufacturing has traditionally been regarded in the development literature as having special ‘growth-pulling’ or ‘growth-enhancing’ properties...
Business networks Economic development Manufacturing industriesWorking Paper
Developing and Harnessing Software Technology in the South: The Roles of China, India, Brazil, and South AfricaSoftware technology is gaining prominence in national information technology (IT) strategies due to its huge potential for socioeconomic development, particularly through the support it provides in the productive sectors of the economy, delivery of p...
Business networks Computer software Information technologyWorking Paper
The Service Sector Revolution in India: A Quantitative AnalysisFollowing the economic liberalization in India, the service sector has gained prominence in the economy as it accounts for the largest share of GDP and, also that the share of this sector in GDP has been growing very rapidly...
Economic development International trade ProductivityWorking Paper
Beyond Industrialization: New Approaches to Development Strategy Based on the Service SectorIndustrialization occupies a central place in the rich tapestry of development theory and practice...
Agricultural industries Economic development IndustrializationWorking Paper
Tourism Competitiveness in Small Island Developing StatesThe tourism industry is the leading segment of the services industries in small island developing states (SIDS). This paper therefore seeks primarily to investigate both the nature and determinants of tourism competitiveness in SIDS...
Competition Economic policy Service industries