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Imports as product and labour market discipline
Boulhol, Hervé; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2008
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labour markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...
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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and labour market flexibility : an exploratory assessment of contract labour use in India's formal manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Singh, Jaivir - 2015
One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...
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Asia's industrial transformation : the role of manufacturing and global value chains
Felipe, Jesus - 2018
structural transformation toward industrialization, manufacturing in particular. Workers moved out of agriculture into … as the "engine of growth." It is in the context of industrialization that openness played an important role in East Asia … exchange) and industrialization. Part 1 of the paper documents the extent of structural transformation in developing Asia …
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Political economy of industrialization and industrial parks in Ethiopia
Kebede, Selamawit G.; Heshmati, Almas - 2023
This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political … used for exploring the role of political economy in Ethiopian industrialization. Different political strategies were … strategies of protectionist import substitution industrialization and the outward strategy of export-oriented industrialization …
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Industrial development and growth in Nigeria : lessons and challenges
Chete, Louis N.; Adeoti, J. O.; Adeyinka, F. M.; … - 2014
known as Nigeria Vision 20: 2020, sets the direction for the current industrial policy in Nigeria. The industrialization …
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Modi's "Make in India" industrial reform policy and East Asian flying-geese paradigm
Nam, Chang-woon; Nam, Sumin; Steinhoff, Peter - 2017
The on-going "Make in India" campaign aims at manufacturing revival. Its characteristics resemble East Asian industrial reform and growth policies based on the flying-geese model which highlights "step-by-step" changes in a country's specialisation pattern and global competitiveness accompanied...
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The middle-income trap and manufacturing transformation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) : Asian experience and the PRC's industrial policy orientation
Huang, Qunhui; Liu, Gang; He, Jun; Jiang, Feitao; … - 2017
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has been undergoing marvelous industrialization and manufacturing development in …
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Key drivers of industrial growth : a case study of Botswana's manufacturing sector
Khanie, Goitseone - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665235
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Structural transformation in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS)
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Haraguchi, Nobuya - 2016
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