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2. Importing the Clairtone Sound: Political Economy, Regionalism, and Deindustrialization in Pictou County.
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MacKinnon, Lachlan
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REGIONALISM , *DEINDUSTRIALIZATION , *GREAT Depression, 1929-1939 , *ECONOMIC development , *ECONOMIC policy , *ECONOMICS - Abstract
Following the industrial crisis of the 1920s and the Great Depression in the 1930s, consecutive provincial governments in Nova Scotia turned their efforts toward state-led economic development. After the election of Robert Stanfield and the Tories in 1956, a wholesale industrial planning model was unveiled. Indeed, Stanfieldian economic policy in Nova Scotia was predicated upon the belief that direct state-led interventionism was necessary to offset regional inequity. State corporate entities, such as Industrial Estates Limited, and renewed interest in a state-driven industrial relations paradigm were central in the province's efforts to revitalize its flagging economy and offset predicted decline in the Cape Breton coal and steel industries. This article examines the fate of the Clairtone Sound Corporation, one of Nova Scotia's "new industries" that emerged out of these state-led development efforts. A case study of this Stellarton-based firm reveals how structural processes of deindustrialization produced crisis even within sectors that were completely distinct from the province's cornerstone industries of coal and steel. This case includes a reflection on the class composition of the modernist state in Nova Scotia and represents a convergence of the historiographical focus on state-led industrial development in the Maritimes and recent literature found within deindustrialization studies. À la suite de la crise industrielle des années 1920 et de la Grande Dépression des années 1930, les gouvernements provinciaux successifs de la Nouvelle-Écosse ont orienté leurs efforts vers un développement économique dirigé par l›État. Après l›élection de Robert Stanfield et des conservateurs en 1956, un modèle de planification industrielle en gros a été dévoilé. En effet, la politique économique « stanfieldienne » en Nouvelle-Écosse reposait sur la conviction que l›interventionnisme direct dirigé par l›État était nécessaire pour compenser les inégalités régionales. Les sociétés d›État, comme Industrial Estates Limited, et le regain d›intérêt pour un paradigme de relations industrielles dirigé par l›État ont joué un rôle central dans les efforts de la province pour revitaliser son économie chancelante et compenser le déclin prévu des industries du charbon et de l›acier du Cap-Breton. Cet article examine le sort de la Clairtone Sound Corporation, l›une des « nouvelles industries » de la Nouvelle-Écosse qui a émergé de ces efforts de développement menés par l›État. Une étude de cas de cette entreprise basée à Stellarton révèle comment les processus structurels de désindustrialisation ont produit une crise même dans des secteurs complètement distincts des industries phares du charbon et de l›acier de la province. Ce cas comprend une réflexion sur la composition de classe de l›État moderniste en Nouvelle-Écosse et représente une convergence de l›accent historiographique sur le développement industriel dirigé par l›État dans les Maritimes et de la documentation récente trouvée dans les études sur la désindustrialisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Deindustrialization and Industry Polarization
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Michael Sposi, Jing Zhang, and Kei-Mu Yi
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Deindustrialization ,Transmission channel ,Structural change ,Polarization (politics) ,Specialization (functional) ,Economics ,Open economy ,Economic geography ,Relative price - Abstract
We add to recent evidence on deindustrialization and document a new pattern: increasing industry polarization over time. We assess whether these patterns can be explained by a dynamic open economy model of structural change in which the two primary driving forces are sector-biased productivity growth and sectoral trade integration. We calibrate the model to the same countries used to document our patterns. We find that sector-biased productivity growth is important for deindustrialization, and sectoral trade integration is important for industry polarization through specialization. The interaction of these two driving forces is also essential. The key transmission channel is the declining relative price of manufacturing goods to services over time.
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- 2021
4. Relevance of middle-income trap (MIT) to the vision-based development in Bangladesh
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Akanda, M. Aminul Islam
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- 2023
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5. Transcending the Nostalgic : Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation
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Jaramillo, George S., Tomann, Juliane, Jaramillo, George S., and Tomann, Juliane
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- 2021
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6. A geographical theory of (De)industrialization
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Armando José Garcia Pires and José Pedro Pontes
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Deindustrialization ,Economics and Econometrics ,Stylized fact ,Von Thünen ,Natural resource economics ,Industrialization of Agrarian Economies ,Friedrich list ,Decentralization ,Industrialisation ,Agricultural land ,Economics ,Mill ,Fixed cost ,Relocation - Abstract
In the model of agricultural land use and rent of Von Thunen (1826), manufacturing decentralization is viewed as the refining (or “distilling”) of an agricultural commodity near the cultivation site, which substitutes for its transport to an industrial mill located in the Town. As Friedrich List (1841) added, this substitution is economically feasible only if the savings in transport cost following from in site refining cover the increase in fixed costs associated with a second industrial plant. We update this approach aiming to rationalize some stylized trends of manufacture relocation nowadays, which are jointly labeled as “deindustrialization info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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- 2021
7. Structural transformation of the economy: practical aspects
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Deindustrialization ,Globalization ,World economy ,business.industry ,Technological change ,Economic sector ,Economics ,Developing country ,General Medicine ,Economic system ,business ,Tertiary sector of the economy ,Panel data - Abstract
The purpose of the article is to consider the practical aspects of the structural transformation of economy. Over the past few decades, absolutely all national economies have undergone structural changes, regardless of their size, economic system and all other political or economic differences. The transformation of structures was associated with many factors, including institutional changes, technological changes, the widespread introduction of the results of scientific and technological progress, globalization and integration processes. At the same time, it should be noted that not all structural changes had a positive effect for all countries, even though the changes had almost the same trend of growth in the share of the service sector, a decrease in the share of agriculture and manufacturing. This article is an attempt to systematize the main trends and consequences of structural transformations in the world. The authors put forward the hypothesis that the world economy tends to “servicization” and deindustrialization, which has dialectical significance for the world economy. To assess the structural changes, we analyzed the data of the World Bank to study the dynamics of changes in the sectoral structure of the countries of the world in the period from 1990 to 2019. A very great influence on these processes was exerted by globalization, which through its mechanisms made possible a rapid change in industry proportions not only in the developed world, but also in developing countries, while forming a global trend of “servicization” of the economy. The authors tried to conduct a comparative analysis of the impact of each economic sector on GDP using a regression model based on panel data from more than 180 countries of the world presented by the World Bank.
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- 2021
8. Nafta and Mexico’s Economic Growth from a Gender Perspective
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Luis Rene Caceres
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Deindustrialization ,education.field_of_study ,Cointegration ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Population ,Balance of trade ,Tariff ,Dignity ,Economics ,Demographic economics ,Treaty ,education ,Productivity ,media_common - Abstract
This paper investigates the dynamics of Mexico’s economy after the signing of the NAFTA treaty. It is reported that Mexico, the United States and Canada have experienced low rates of economic growth as a result of the deindustrialization processes they have undergone, which has been a consequence of the tariff reductions. Tariff reduction has also affected employment, especially female industrial employment, with adverse consequences on domestic savings, trade balance and economic growth. Additional analysis is related to cointegration tests of the employment ratios, as well as to the existence of principal components among the three countries’ employment to population ratios. The paper investigates the effects of declining employment to population ratios in the three countries, reporting that in Mexico female employment has increased to compensate the declining tendencies of labor productivity and male employment ratio. The paper ends with a proposal regarding the launching of the North American Social and Dignity Pact.
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- 2021
9. Capitalist Development, Labor Law, and the New Working Class.
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ROGERS, BRISHEN
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LABOR market , *ECONOMICS , *NEOLIBERALISM , *SOCIAL change , *ECONOMIC change - Abstract
Gabriel Winant's The Next Shift charts the transformation of Pittsburgh's labor market and political economy from the postwar period through the era of unabashed neoliberalism. During that time, relatively well-paid and unionized employment in steel and metalworking plummeted, while low-wage, precarious, nonunion employment in health care and related sectors surged. The composition of the working class also shifted, from being disproportionately white and male to disproportionately nonwhite and female. While Winant is a labor and social historian, his book has many implications for legal scholars, including those focused on the role of law in neoliberalism. In particular, the book situates both Pittsburgh's evolution and neoliberalism itself in the historical process of capitalist development, or the process through which imperatives of accumulation generate constant technological, economic, and social changes. In Pittsburgh, Winant shows, deindustrialization was an inflection point in that process, generating social crises that were mitigated first by the rise of health care, and then by the suppression of wages among health care workers. This Book Review argues that labor law--or the whole complex of laws constituting and governing work--was transformed by those same structural forces over that same period. Postwar labor law understood employment, at least for relatively privileged industrial workers, as a social relationship jointly constituted by the working class and employers. Under neoliberalism, labor law came to understand employment more as an individual contract between putative equals, a development which enabled profitability in low-productivity service sectors like nursing homes and home care. In that sense, labor law helped to birth today's working class, even as it denies that a working class still exists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
10. A GENDER PERSPECTIVE ON MEXICO'S ECONOMIC GROWTH
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Caceres, Luis Rene
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Early childhood education -- Analysis -- Economic aspects ,Labor market -- Analysis -- Economic aspects ,Unemployment -- Spain -- Mexico -- Latin America ,Emigration and immigration -- Analysis -- Economic aspects ,Economic conditions -- Analysis -- Economic aspects ,Economic growth -- Analysis -- Economic aspects ,Labor productivity -- Economic aspects -- Analysis ,Company growth ,Business ,Economics ,Business, international ,Regional focus/area studies ,World Bank Group. World Bank -- Economic policy -- Growth - Abstract
Among the Latin American countries, the Mexican economy has shown since the late 1990's one of the lowest rates of economic growth. This is perplexing, because of the persistency of the stagnation tendencies, and because of the rapid growth shown by its exports, especially to the US, that reached $370 billion in 2018. The poor economic performance has had adverse consequences in terms of unemployment, emigration, social conflict, and especially in terms of the losses of female and male youth employment. This paper seeks to explain the causes of Mexico's economic stagnation. The methodology consists of the estimation of cointegration equations that express per capita economic growth as a function of the growth of labor productivity, plus the growth of the female and male employment to population ratios. Additional equations were estimated to identify the variables that explain the growth of productivity and of employment ratios and to estimate the role of deindustrialization in economic stagnation. An analysis was made of the role of female employment on the mobilization of domestic savings, on the determination of the deficit in the trade account, and on the constraint exerted by the balance of payments on growth. The source of data was the World Bank's World Development Indicators. The results indicated that female employment is an important determinant of external solvency and contributes to overcoming the balance of payments constrain on economic growth. Another salient result is the negative impact of youth unemployment on labor productivity and the negative impact of the percentage of young women that neither study nor work on economic growth. The policy implications are related to the importance of promoting male and female employment with a view towards accelerating economic growth, and the need to establish measures to facilitate women's entry into the labor market. This would require the establishment of national networks of childcare centers, the expansion of early childhood education, improving the quality of education, and increasing wages. As well, policies must be implemented to promote the reindustrialization and reagriculturalization of the Mexican economy to obtain national self-sufficiency and security and impart dynamism to economic growth. JEL classifications: O11, O14, O16, O17, J48, J71 Keywords: economic growth, productivity, gender, youth unemployment Contact author's email address: luisrenecaceres@gmail.com, INTRODUCTION The Mexican economy has for several decades shown some of the lowest annual rates of economic growth per capita of Latin American countries, of about 1.5%. This is surprising [...]
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- 2023
11. Energy crisis: five questions that must be answered in 2023.
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Goldthau, Andreas and Tagliapietra, Simone
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Market turmoil and geopolitical realignment after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put livelihoods and the green-energy transition at risk. Here’s how researchers can help overcome the threats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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12. Review of periodical literature for 2020: (vi) Since 1945.
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ECONOMIC history ,ECONOMICS - Published
- 2022
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13. 'There's just too many': The construction of immigration as a social problem
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James Pattison
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Sociology and Political Science ,Social Problems ,Economics ,Population Dynamics ,Humans ,L300 Sociology ,Emigration and Immigration ,Social Change ,L400 Social Policy ,Demography - Abstract
This article presents findings collected in 2016-2017 from a multi-method ethnographic study of Shirebrook, Derbyshire in the English East Midlands, examining the narratives used by the local authority (LA) and local residents that construct immigration as a social problem. In doing so, it contributes to the literature on race and migration by extending analysis beyond metropolitan localities with long histories of multi-ethnic settlement, to consider a relatively small, peripheral former colliery town. The paper demonstrates how migration is framed as a social problem by central government funding streams with consequences for localities, and the influence this has on local narratives of social change. The construction of immigration as a social problem is rooted in the constraints of austerity and longer-term processes of deindustrialization and economic restructuring, with representations and understandings of place being constitutive of anti-immigrant sentiment. This article deepens our understanding of responses to immigration in the UK, and has broader implications for understanding the relationship between place, state polices and local narratives.
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- 2022
14. Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa : Seizing Opportunities in Global Value Chains
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Albert Zeufack, Woubet Kassa, Emmanuel K. K. Lartey, Solomon Owusu, Taye Mengistae, and Kaleb Girma Abreha
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Sub saharan ,Market competition ,MARKET COMPETITION ,INDUSTRIALIZATION ,COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE ,Industrialisation ,KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE INDUSTRY ,Development economics ,Economics ,EMPLOYMENT ,GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN ,SKILLS DEVELOPMENT ,Comparative advantage ,Global value chain - Abstract
Industrialization drives the sustained growth in jobs and productivity that marks the developmental take-off of most developed economies. Yet, academics and policy makers have questioned the role of manufacturing in development for late industrializers, especially in view of rapid advancements in technologies and restructuring of international trade. Concurrently, industrialization and structural transformation are integral to the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the development strategies of several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Given this renewed interest in industrialization across the region, a central question is not whether SSA countries should pursue industrialization as a potential path to sustainable growth but how to promote the prospects of industrialization. Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Seizing Opportunities in Global Value Chains addresses this question by reassessing the prospects for industrialization in SSA countries through integration into global value chains. It also examines the role of policy in enhancing these prospects. The main findings indicate that • SSA has not experienced premature deindustrialization; the region has witnessed substantial growth in manufacturing jobs despite a lack of improvement in the contribution of manufacturing value-added to GDP. • The region’s integration into manufacturing global value chains is reasonably high but it is dominated by exports of primary products and engagement in low-skill tasks. • Global value chain integration has led to job growth, and backward integration is associated with more job creation. The report emphasizes the role of policy in maintaining a competitive market environment, promoting productivity growth, and investing in skills development and enabling sectors such as infrastructure and finance. Policy makers can strengthen the global value chain linkages by (1) increasing the value-added content of current exports, (2) upgrading into high-skill tasks, and (3) creating comparative advantages in knowledge-intensive industries.
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- 2021
15. The Belt and Road Initiative in Cambodia: Costs and Benefits
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Menon, Jayant
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Belt and Road Initiative, 2013- -- Economic aspects ,Poverty -- China -- Cambodia ,Medium term notes -- Economic aspects ,Economic growth -- Economic aspects ,Business ,Economics ,Business, international ,Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - Abstract
China is Cambodia's largest bilateral donor, lender, investor, and trading partner. Economic relations between the two countries have been strengthened by Cambodia's active participation in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). However, participating in the BRI has both costs and benefits. It has addressed Cambodia's infrastructure deficits, reduced trade and transport costs, and supported productivity and economic growth. This has improved living conditions and reduced poverty. On the negative side, there are concerns over environmental decay, land grabbing, and associated losses in livelihoods. On the whole, benefits appear to outweigh costs in Cambodia. Nevertheless, China is trying to improve the environmental, social, and financial sustainability of BRI investments, following international criticisms. Although there are early signs that the implementation of projects is becoming more environmentally friendly, concerns over inadequate environmental impact assessments and resettlement programs remain. Increasing reliance on one country also carries risks; diversifying sources may help achieve Cambodia's aim of diversifying its economic structure. Keywords: Cambodia, China, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), costs and benefits, infrastructure development, land grabbing, environmental decay., 1. Introduction It is widely recognized that Cambodia and China have a strong and special political and economic relationship. Perhaps what is less well known is how old this relationship [...]
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- 2024
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16. Construction of the new development dynamic and development of digital economy: internal logic and policy focus
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Yang, Hutao
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- 2023
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17. Deferring cash commitments to mitigate COVID-19 impact on the service sector: a case study of a transition economy
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Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal
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- 2023
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18. COULD IMPORT-SUBSTITUTION BE A SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIALIZATION PATHWAY FOR LESS-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES?
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Uddin, Godwin E.
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Emerging markets ,Foreign investments -- Imports ,International business enterprises ,Industrial productivity ,Imports ,Protectionism ,Productivity ,Business ,Economics ,Business, international ,Regional focus/area studies ,World Trade Organization -- Imports - Abstract
The strive for economic sustainability in world economies, most especially Less-Developed Countries (LDCs) in recent time notably see also an unwelcome comeback of the Import-Substitution (IS) trade strategy whose efficacy established overtime has been mixed. Thus, a systematic/meta-narrative review of literature on the appropriateness of the IS trade strategy in absolute terms to world economies, more particularly LDCs in contemporary time and among policy-alternatives, bearing in mind its tenets as well as its implications was carried out. The PRISMA methodology adapted here alongside an exploration of over 100 relevant literature through salient themes aid to present a synopsis of lessons from emerging market economies, and clear-cut submissions in a bid to inform policy directions. Amidst others, this review findings identify resource deficiencies, some time-lag considerations as such that attest the limited applicability of the IS trade strategy in absolute terms, and also emphasize the notion that Developing Economies or LDCs still need give allowance for certain imports, such as capital-goods imports, into their domestic economy for industrial productivity growth. Consequently from the review presented, efforts by LDCs to accommodate Multinational enterprises (MNEs) and or attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to achieve technology transfer must be continually implemented. JEL Classifications: F00, F01 and F10 Keywords: Import-Substitution, Trade, Strategy, Imports, Industrialization, Less-Developed Countries (LDCs), Economic sustainability, INTRODUCTION The strive for economic sustainability in world economies, most especially Less-Developed Countries (LDCs) in these times, even so as such efforts relate to in part the realization of the [...]
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- 2023
19. Trade openness and working poverty: empirical evidences from developing countries
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Nessa, Hazera-Tun- and Imai, Katsushi S.
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- 2023
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20. Do Exports from Developing Economies Still Matter in Global Value Chains? Evidence from Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam
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Lee, Woocheol
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High technology industry -- Economic aspects ,Exports -- Economic aspects ,Developing countries -- Economic aspects ,Business ,Economics ,Business, international - Abstract
Amid ever-growing global value chains (GVCs), a major controversial topic relates to the extent to which developing economies benefit from participating in such value chains. To measure these gains, this paper examines data pertaining to value-added in exports from three Southeast Asian economies--Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The study estimates the sectoral income elasticities of the export demand of each country over the period 19802017, revealing that the highest income elasticities are observed in low value-adding sectors such as primary products, resource-based goods and low-tech industries. This implies that the three countries have been involved in simple and not high-skill tasks within GVCs. The paper also examines the sectoral domestic share of value-added (DVA) and foreign share of value-added (FVA) of exports of the three economies using the OECD Trade in Value-added (TiVA) database over the period 2005-15. We find that DVA in the medium- and high-tech industries that add greater value is smaller than FVA in all three countries. Overall, these results suggest that developing nations need to step up their participation in GVCs through process and/or function upgrading. Keywords: Global value chains, production capability, value-added, income elasticity of export demand, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam., 1. Introduction Over the last two decades, the importance of global value chains (GVCs) in international trade and production has grown significantly. Today, a large number of economies and firms [...]
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- 2022
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21. Avoiding the Resource Curse Lessons from Indonesia
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Hill, Hal and Pasaribu, Donny Harrison
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Developing countries -- Case studies ,Business ,Economics ,Business, international ,World Bank Group. World Bank - Abstract
Natural resources--blessing or curse? Indonesia provides an excellent case study for an examination of this question. It is a major commodity exporter; the fourth most populous country in the world; and the world's largest archipelagic state with huge mineral, forest and maritime resources. Indonesia also has three distinctive features that are particularly relevant for such a study. First, with the exception of the Asian Financial and COVID-19 crises, it has had at least moderately strong economic performance for the past half-century. This distinguishes it from the majority of resource-rich developing countries, and therefore there are lessons to be learnt from its management of these boom and bust episodes, particularly the latter. Second, Indonesia has experienced two rather different resource booms--the first based mainly on oil and gas in the 1970s and the second based primarily on coal, palm oil and gas over the years 2005-11. The economic, social and environmental effects of these two booms have differed significantly. Third, the country experienced major regime change in 1998-99, from the centralized, authoritarian Soeharto regime in 1966-98, which presided over the first boom, to the subsequent democratic, decentralized regime during the second boom. The very different political and institutional arrangements had important implications for the management of the boom and its distributional effects. We examine these issues in a comparative context, employing as reference points two very large natural resource exporters, Brazil and Nigeria, and Malaysia, a smaller, more dynamic Southeast Asian comparator. Keywords: Indonesia, resource curse, natural resources, political economy., 1. Introduction A central puzzle in development economics is what has come to be known as the 'resource curse', the paradox that natural resource abundance appears to be causally associated [...]
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- 2022
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22. Development of the digital economy, transformation of the economic structure and leaping of the middle-income trap
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Qi, Yudong and Chu, Xi
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- 2022
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23. The crisis of US neoliberalism and the risk of current economic stagflation
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Ding, Xiaoqin and Luo, Zhihong
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- 2022
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24. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, AND MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT: AFRICA
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Grabowski, Richard and Self, Sharmistha
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Infants -- Patient outcomes -- Employment ,Agricultural industry -- Employment -- International economic relations ,Manufacturing industry ,Business ,Economics ,Business, international ,Regional focus/area studies ,World Bank Group. World Bank -- Employment - Abstract
The impact of agricultural productivity growth on the process of structural change, an increase in the share of labor employed in manufacturing, is a much debated topic. One perspective argues that agricultural productivity promotes structural change via its contribution of various resources to the manufacturing sector. Another hypothesis proposed is that agricultural productivity growth will draw resources away from agriculture. This paper hypothesizes that agricultural productivity growth plays a key role in the structural change process, but not necessarily through the mechanisms usually proposed. It is hypothesized here that agricultural productivity growth improves the quality of human labor (measured by the human development index, human capital accumulation, and reductions in infant mortality). In turn, improvements in the quality of human labor make it more profitable to employ labor in manufacturing and thus structural change, measured by the share of manufacturing employment in total employment, increases. These hypotheses are tested using dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) techniques utilizing data from seventeen countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The findings indicate that agricultural productivity growth has a significant positive impact human labor quality as measured by the human development index, human capital accumulation, and reductions in infant mortality. In addition, improvements in the quality of human labor in turn have a significant positive impact on the extent of structural change as measured by the share of manufacturing employment as a share of total employment. In addition, trade, as measured by exports plus imports divided by GDP, also has a significant positive impact on the extent of structural change. Finally, inflation appears to slow the structural change process. The policy implications are straightforward. Agricultural productivity does indeed seem to be important in the process of structural change. Thus development programs involving Sub-Saharan Africa should focus on investment in the development of agricultural technologies that will raise agricultural productivity. In a broader sense, governments should focus investment on improving the overall quality of labor. JEL Classifications: O1, O13, O14, O15 Keywords: agricultural productivity, structural change, human development, Africa, INTRODUCTION The primary objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of agricultural productivity on structural change (the shift of resources, in particular labor, out of agriculture and into [...]
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- 2022
25. Performance of large firms in Greece during the unstable period of 2011–2016: lessons from the weak parts of Europe
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Tsiapa, Maria
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- 2022
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26. Trends in Earnings Volatility among US Men
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Moffitt, Robert A.
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Economists ,Business, general ,Business ,Economics - Abstract
Economists have been concerned about the volatility of earnings and income for decades because it creates uncertainty for families and individuals and makes it more difficult for them to plan [...]
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- 2021
27. Not a Crime to Be Poor. The Criminalization of Poverty in America
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Glee-Vermande, Catherine
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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America (Nonfiction work) -- Edelman, Peter B. ,Books -- Book reviews ,Business, general ,Economics ,Business ,Human resources and labor relations - Abstract
Not a Crime to Be Poor. The Criminalization of Poverty in America. By Peter B. Edelman (2019), The New Press, 336 pages. ISBN : 978-1-62097-548-0 Published in 2017, just one [...]
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- 2021
28. Die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft. : Ausgangslage, Handlungserfordernisse, Perspektiven und Johann-Heinrich-von-Thünen-Vorlesung: Kurt W. Rothschild: Löhne, Theorien: Lohntheorien. Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, in Jena vom
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Gutmann, Gernot, Heinrich, Johann, Vorlesung, Thünen, Löhne, Kurt W. Rothschild, Gutmann, Gernot, Heinrich, Johann, Vorlesung, Thünen, and Löhne, Kurt W. Rothschild
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- 2021
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29. Four Books on the Banks of the Merrimack River
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Sherman, Zoe
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University of North Carolina Press ,Book publishing ,Emigration and immigration ,Business ,Economics - Abstract
Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 by Thomas Dublin (Columbia University Press, 1981) Lyddie by Katherine Paterson (Puffin Books, 1995) Bread and Roses, [...]
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- 2022
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