Industrialization in developing countries: is it related to poverty reduction?

Abdul Azeez Erumban and Gaaitzen de Vries

No wp-2021-172, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and structural change—the reallocation of workers across sectors—for 42 developing countries from 1990 to 2018. Next, the contributions are used in a regression analysis, which indicates that poverty reduction is significantly related to structural change and productivity growth in manufacturing.

Keywords: Poverty; Production; Growth; Manufacturing; Structural change; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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