This paper introduces an innovative methodology that combines industry level information (exports, HA 4-digits) with indicators at the country level, to analyze which social capabilities are important to explain the observed patterns of structural transformation. The authors consider several...

This paper focuses on key economic and social factors underpinning worldwide issues around cybersecurity and, identifies a new agenda for addressing these issues that is being shaped by the Internet and related information and communication technologies, such as social media. All actors in the...

In many countries, the resistances that obstruct the setting-up of development-enhancing forms of governance are problematic. In many cases, these resistances are linked to firmly anchored beliefs that have to do with to the proper ways of acting in society. For many years, much was expected...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part I: Overview -- Overview -- The expansion of GVCs could stall unless policy predictability is restored -- GVCs boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty -- The gains from GVCs...

This study describes how jobs are perceived in Jianyang, China Sichuan, by exploring beyond the earnings, health benefits, and pension plans that characterize a ???good job??? to focus on the features that increase living standards, productivity growth, and social cohesion. Tremendous changes in...

This study shows how jobs are perceived in Risaralda, Colombia, by exploring beyond the earnings, health benefits, and pension plans that characterize a ???good job??? to focus on the features that increase living standards, productivity growth, and social cohesion. Colombia has experienced...

This study shows how jobs are perceived in Sierra Leone by exploring beyond earnings, health benefits, and pension plans that characterize a ???good job??? to focus on the features that increase living standards, productivity growth, and social cohesion. Since the civil war (1991???2002), Sierra...