A manufacturing renaissance? Industrialization trends in the developing world

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This paper examines industrialization trends in developing countries. It uses the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database, which provides time series of employment and real and nominal value added annually by 12 sectors in 51 countries for the period 1990-2018. Until the early 2000s de-industrialization was widespread, but then the trend reversed. Regressions that control for income and demographic trends suggest significant employment industrialization in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. We explore the nature of this manufacturing renaissance.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-966-2
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2021/28

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: General, International, or Comparative ; Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
• Subject: industrialization ; Economic Transformation Database ; manufacturing renaissance

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kruse, Hagen ; Mensah, Emmanuel ; Sen, Kunal ; de Vries, Gaaitzen
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2021

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2021/966-2
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/243354
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET