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Manufacturing and Economic Development: Inter-sectoral relationships in Europe, America, Africa and Asia-Pacific, 1999-2006
GUISAN, Maria-Carmen - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 8 (2008) 2, pp. 73-88
positive impact on the real value-added of services and economic development. We analyze the results of several econometric … importance to improve socio-economic development. In the poorest countries of Africa, and other areas, increase of manufacturing … activities focused to development of domestic markets, should be included in the main strategies for international cooperation to …
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Decomposing Brazilian manufacturing industry dynamics in the mid-2000s: Macroeconomic factors and their sectoral impacts
Domingues, Edson Paulo; Barreiro de Souza, Kênia; … - In: EconomiA 18 (2017) 3, pp. 411-432
The manufacturing industry's loss in participation, phenomena called “deindustrialization”, has been observed for the Brazilian economy for a while and seems to have intensified from mid-2000s. However, the literature has not developed a consistent or integrated analysis of this process. We...
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High tech foreign direct investment and its impact on economic development
Marasco, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Recent empirical studies concerning the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic development have all been … relationship between the share of technology embodied into FDI and the level of economic development in the host country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837049
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Decomposing Brazilian manufacturing industry dynamics in the mid-2000s : macroeconomic factors and their sectoral impacts
Domingues, Edson Paulo; Souza, Kênia Barreiro de; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 18 (2017) 3, pp. 411-432
The manufacturing industry's loss in participation, phenomena called "deindustrialization", has been observed for the Brazilian economy for a while and seems to have intensified from mid-2000s. However, the literature has not developed a consistent or integrated analysis of this process. We have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011866548
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Coal-fired power plants and industrial development
Missbach, Leonard; Steckel, Jan Christoph; Renner, Sebastian - 2024
Past periods of industrial development have gone hand in hand with the burning of coal, but there is little evidence on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577268
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Promoting manufactuiring to accelerate economic growth and reduce growth volatility in Africa
Elhiraika, Adam B.; Aboubakar, Ousman; Muhammad, Kamaludeen - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 2, pp. 1-20
This paper investigates the role of economic transformation in the form of increased manufacturing share in aggregate output in accelerating growth and reducing growth volatility in Africa. Using cross-section time series data from 50 African countries, the paper examines the key determinants of...
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Technology, specialisation and productivity in manufacturing industry
KILIÇASLAN, Yılmaz; ERDOĞAN, Levent; USLU, Nilgün … - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 27 (2012) 314, pp. 09-33
The aim of this study is to provide evidence on the relation between specialisation patterns and productivity in manufacturing industry of thirty nine countries, both developed and underdeveloped, from 1981 to 2003. In particular, this study explores either “absolute specialisation” or...
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Manufacturing firms in Africa: Some stylized facts about wages and productivity
Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
development. Further, even though many Africans earn subsistence wages working for informal firms, formal firms have higher labor …
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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
In this paper, the links between the investment in innovation activities, innovation outputs (technological and non-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the first attempt to study these links for...
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Ensuring effectiveness in our front‐line leaders
Bunning, Richard L. - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 32 (2000) 3, pp. 99-105
human resource management systems; and implement training and development as an ongoing process. The rationale for each …
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