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Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa: an overviewFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Services Economic development South AfricaBlog
‘Industrial’ policy in the 21st century
During the past week, I participated in two international conferences. The first was the WIDER Development Conference in Helsinki: Think development - Think WIDER ...
Industrialization Structural change Employment and IndustryWorking Paper
Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian developmentOver the past sixty years, most Asian countries have undergone relatively rapid agricultural transformations that helped jumpstart broader economic development...
Agricultural productivity Structural change Rural developmentWorking Paper
Variation in structural change around the world, 1985–2015: Patterns, causes and implicationsDuring 1985–2015, globalization intensified the factor-endowment-related pattern of sectoral specialization. In skill-abundant developed countries, manufacturing became more skill-intensive...
Structural change Industrialization GlobalizationWorking Paper
Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania’s service sectorDespite Tanzania’s rapid recent growth, the vast majority of employment creation has been in informal services. This paper addresses the role that different subsectors of formal and informal services have played in Tanzania’s growth...
Services Informal sector Economic growthWorking Paper
Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa: An overviewThe South African services sector is large and growing. This coupled with declining employment shares in manufacturing and mining (i.e. deindustrialization) suggests that South Africa is a de facto service-orientated economy...
Services Economic development South Africa