Africa's manufacturing puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian firms

X Diao, M Ellis, M McMillan… - The World Bank Economic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by declining shares of the labor
force employed in agriculture, increasing labor productivity in agriculture, and declining …

[图书][B] African economic development: Evidence, theory, policy

C Cramer, J Sender, A Oqubay - 2020 - library.oapen.org
This book challenges conventional wisdoms both about economic performance and about
policies for economic development in African countries. Its starting point is the striking …

[PDF][PDF] Global value chains and employment in developing economies

CH Hollweg - Global value chain development report, 2019 - researchgate.net
The emergence of global value chains–whereby goods that used to be produced within one
country are now fragmented and distributed across global networks of production–has …

[PDF][PDF] Trade in global value chains

T Farole, C Hollweg, D Winkler - 2018 - documents.worldbank.org
Global trade integrates not only markets for products, services, finance and technology, but
also, directly and indirectly, markets for labor. Indeed, rising protectionism and the growing …

Jobs and productivity growth in global value chains: new evidence for twenty-five low-and middle-income countries

S Pahl, MP Timmer, R Gouma… - The World Bank …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Using newly developed data, the evolution of job and productivity growth in global value
chains (GVCs) is analyzed for 25 low-and middle-income countries. GVC jobs are found to …

Do developing countries gain by participating in global value chains? Evidence from India

C Veeramani, G Dhir - Review of World Economics, 2022 - Springer
Is it in the interest of a developing country to promote strong local linkages for domestic
industries or to participate in global value chains (GVCs) wherein linkages are globally …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneous effect of exchange rates on firms' exports: Role of labor intensity

K Akdoğan, YK Bağır, H Torun - Central Bank Review, 2023 - Elsevier
Using an extensive firm-level database that combines balance sheet information, social
security registry and customs data, we examine whether the relationship between the …

[PDF][PDF] Trade, value chains and labor markets in advanced economies

B Marc, S Victor - グローバル・バリューチェーン・レポート(2019 年版) …, 2019 - ir.ide.go.jp
Trade is a major source of employment. Nevertheless, trade has recently been caught in the
crossfire in discussions around the decline of manufacturing employment and the …

Trade specialisation and changing patterns of comparative advantages in manufactured goods

B Algieri, A Aquino, M Succurro - Italian Economic Journal, 2022 - Springer
Starting from the late 1950s, mainly as a reaction to Leontief's paradoxical results, a large
amount of research has underlined the great importance of technology and human capital in …

Determinants of participation in manufacturing GVCs in Africa: The role of skills, human capital endowment and migration

ND Yameogo, K Jammeh - World Bank Policy Research Working …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as
determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa's participation in manufacturing global value chains …