Manufacturing growth accelerations in developing countries
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1363-6669; 1467-9361
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Review of development economics, 2019, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 1696-1724
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HARAGUCHI, Nobuya, MARTORANO, Bruno, SANFILIPPO, Marco, SHINGAL, Anirudh, Manufacturing growth accelerations in developing countries, Review of development economics, 2019, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 1696-1724 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/66049
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This paper investigates the factors driving manufacturing growth accelerations in a sample of 134 developing countries over the period 1970 to 2014. We first identify growth acceleration episodes of manufacturing value added (MVA) by their year of initiation and according to a country's income classification. We then estimate a probit model to explain what factors predict these MVA growth accelerations. Our results show that human capital and institutions represent contextual factors that favor the growth of manufacturing, together with macroeconomic policies related to investment, and openness to foreign trade and capital. We also find that most of these factors not only foster episodic accelerations of industry, but they contribute as well to a sustained process of industrialization that characterized the process of economic growth of a few successful countries over the period 1970 to 2014.
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First published:16 September 2019
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Government of Japan through the Development Cooperation Trust Fund