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Brandt, Loren - 2016

We see industrialization in China the last 150 years as an ongoing process through which firms acquired and deepened …

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Three Varieties of Africa's Industrial Future

Naudé, Wim - 2019

concerned, African countries will in differing degrees experience three varieties of industrialization, all influenced by new … services now perform functions previously expected from manufacturing. A third variety of future industrialization is labelled … "resurgent entrepreneurship-lead industrialization" denoting that some African countries will take part in new and advanced types …

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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Heath, Rachel - 2014

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...

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Africa's Industrialization Prospects : A Fresh Look

Naudé, Wim; Tregenna, Fiona - 2023

This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various … estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as …-shape relationship between industrialization and GDP per capita is consistent with (premature) de-industrialization. Technological change …

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Gender and Industrialization : Developments and Trends in the Context of Developing Countries

Sorgner, Alina - 2021

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context …

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Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa

Naudé, Wim - 2017

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through …

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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael - 2010

This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...

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Learning from Latin America's Experience : Europe's Failure in the 'Lisbon Process'

Tausch, Arno - 2010

The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of Latin American "dependencia theory" for five dimensions of development (democracy and human rights, environment, human development and basic human needs satisfaction, gender justice, redistribution, growth and employment) on a global...

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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Criscuolo, Chiara - 2012

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...

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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

Goolsbee, Austan - 2015

This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....

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