Results for tag: 10-Sector
Structural Transformation in Transition Economies: New Data and New Insights
| Date: | 09 January 2024 |
The new Economic Transformation Database of Transition Economies [ETD-TE] allows for analysis of the inter-industry structural change performance of the countries of the former Soviet Union for the first time. In the period 1990-2019 - the three decades...
Request for Research Proposals ETD
| Date: | 30 November 2021 |
Deadline for proposal submissions is 31 January 2022. United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is requesting research proposals on the Economic Transformation Database (ETD) project. This project aims to...
The Economist: Manufacturing hope in Africa
| Date: | 22 March 2021 |
On March 20th, The Economist featured research by the GGDC and UNU-WIDER on the manufacturing renaissance in Africa. A key finding is that the share of people working in manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa has risen from 7.2% of the total in 2010 to 8.4%....
Launch of the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database
| Date: | 17 February 2021 |
Today, the Economic Transformation Database has been released. This database has been developed by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, supported by UNU-WIDER. The database provides information on output and employment for 12 sectors of the economy...
Workshop on measurement for structural transformation
| Date: | 07 September 2020 |
Groningen co-leads major international project on Structural Change and Economic Growth
| Date: | 04 March 2020 |
For low-income countries to develop, their economies need to transform from rural and agricultural to urban and industrialised. In many sub-Saharan countries, urbanization to date has outpaced industrialization and structural change has largely been from...
UNU WIDER grant and research cooperation
| Date: | 09 November 2019 |
A team of researchers at FEB’s Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) received US$223k from UNU WIDER for a multi-year research project on structural change in developing countries. The United Nations University World Institute for Development...
Premature deindustrialization: GGDC data in the Wall Street Journal
| Date: | 25 November 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
While advanced economies grew rich from specialising in manufacturing and employing a large share of the labor force in this sector, the research of Dani Rodrik suggests that path is no longer available to lower-income economies today. How does he know...