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Science and Survival: Is an Agriculture-led Developmental Model the Way Forward for sub-Saharan Africa?
9 May 2013 Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen and Roger Williamson Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century, (edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim...
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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...
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Is Manufacturing Still the Main Engine of Growth in Developing Countries?
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Adam Szirmai
May 2009
Adam Szirmai Since the late 18th century, the manufacturing sector has been the main engine of growth and catch up. Presently, however, service sector...
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Mozambique: Improving our understanding of the potential of manufacturing
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Vincenzo Salvucci
June 2018
Mozambique’s manufacturing industry is facing many challenges. Nevertheless, we should not underestimate its linkages to the rest of the economy and...
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Sub-Saharan Africa had a manufacturing renaissance in 2010s – it’s a promising sign for the years ahead
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Gaaitzen de Vries, Emmanuel Mensah, Hagen Kruse,
Kunal Sen
February 2021
The 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...
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India’s manufacturing and services value-chains are shifting South: A curse or a blessing?
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Karishma Banga
July 2021
Much has been written on India as an outlier in Global Value Chains (GVC). Despite being one of the largest and fastest-growing markets located in...
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‘Industrial’ policy in the 21st century
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John Page
October 2018
During the past week, I participated in two international conferences. The first was the WIDER Development Conference in Helsinki: Think development -...
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Rethinking African industrialization on another Africa Industrialization Day
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John Page
December 2018
This week I attended the 28th Africa Industrialization Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Even sympathetic readers may reasonably ask...
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The ins and outs of African industrialization: UNU-WIDER provides open access to a wealth of information
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Heini Salonen
December 2018
The question ‘why is there so little industrialization in Africa?’ has been a key focus of UNU-WIDER researchers and research partners for the last...
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What did we Learn at the L2C Conference about Industrial Development and Policy in Africa?
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Roger Williamson
August 2013
22 August 2013 Roger Williamson Given the high growth rates since 2000 and low labour costs, Africa could develop manufacturing industry, agro...
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The New Economy in Development: ICT Challenges and Opportunities
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Anthony P. D’Costa
2006
by Anthony P. D’Costa The last three decades have witnessed a sea change in the character and functioning of the world economy. With the speeding up...
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Made in Africa – the future of production on the continent
The international community has a new set of development goals. They reflect Africa’s aspirations much more closely than the Millennium Development...
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WIDER Annual Lecture 18: Managing Structural Transformation
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Roger Williamson
December 2014
18 December 2014 Roger Williamson At the UN headquarters in New York on 18 November 2014, Peter Timmer, emeritus professor from Harvard, showed how...
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Transforming Economic Structures in Africa – An Interview with Margaret McMillan
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Roger Williamson
June 2014
25 June 2014In this interview Dr Margaret McMillan outlined the theory of structural transformation, which analyzes the underlying structure of the...
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Do the Awakening Giants Have Feet of Clay?
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Pranab K. Bardhan
May 2010
It's imperative to demolish myths around the economic achievements of China and India and get a better sense of the real challenges. The author of the...
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New Structural Economics – An Interview with Justin Lin
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Roger Williamson
August 2014
27 August 2014 In this interview Justin Lin, Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, talks about how the state can enable the process of...