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Structural change and industrial upgrading in the Philippines : stylized facts and routes towards sophisticated economic diversification
Pelkmans-Balaoing, Edylinda Annette Oreta; Mendoza, Adrian - 2024
diversification in the Philippines. The empirical results suggest that reindustrializing the domestic production base can … significantly enhance economic diversification. Strategies that accelerate the growth of local industries, especially to catch up …, improving connectivity, and fostering domestic innovation. This push for greater diversification is justified by its potential …
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Eastern Africa's Manufacturing Sector : Promoting Technology, Innovation, Productivity and Linkages
Bienen, Derk - 2015
This report assesses major opportunities and constraints for the development of Eastern Africa's manufacturing sector, considers suitable examples from other regions, and draws lessons to enhance the manufacturing sector's contribution to Eastern Africa's economic transformation. The report is a...
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Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth : Evidence from Industrialization in France
Juhász, Réka - 2020
We construct a novel plant-level dataset to examine the process of technology adoption during a period of rapid technological change: The diffusion of mechanized cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution in France. We document new stylized facts that can help explain why major...
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Structural Transformation to Manufacturing and Services : What Role for Trade?
Anderson, Kym - 2019
Understanding how and why economies structurally transform as they grow is crucial for making sound national policy decisions. Typically, analysts who study this issue focus on sectoral shares of gross domestic product and employment. This paper extends those studies to include exports,...
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The Unequal Effects of Liberalization : Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
Aghion, Philippe; Burgess, Robin; Redding, Stephen; … - 2007
We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantling the License Raj - a system of central controls regulating entry and production activity in this sector - vary across Indian states with different labor market regulations. The effects are found to be unequal across...
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Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs : A New Narrative for African Manufacturing
Naudé, Wim - 2018
In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called 'brilliant' new technologies associated...
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Framework conditions for net-zero industry clusters in Europe
Wolf, André - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 59 (2024) 5, pp. 267-275
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Foreign Manufacturing Multinationals and the Transformation of the Chinese Economy : New Measurements, New Perspectives
Moran, Theodore H. - 2011
What is the relationship between foreign manufacturing multinational corporations (MNCs) and the expansion of indigenous technological and managerial technological capabilities among Chinese firms? China has been remarkably successful in designing industrial policies, joint venture requirements,...
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Reforms, entry and productivity : some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor);  … - 2006
It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored...
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Brilliant technologies and brave entrepreneurs : a new narrative for African manufacturing
Naudé, Wim - 2018
In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called "brilliant" new technologies associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949049