Industrial development is a privileged route to sustained economic growth due to the relationship between manufacturing, division of labour, and increasing returns. This chapter calls attention to the systemic character of transformations that industrial development introduces in networks of...

A prospering modern sector is crucial for the successful long-term development in developing countries as it provides income and job growth for large shares of society. While this idea is widely accepted, there is, perhaps surprisingly, far less analysis about the exact determinants of this...