Structural Convergence in Manufacturing Industries between Leaders and Latecomers

B. Abegaz

Journal of Development Studies, 2002, vol. 38, issue 4, 69-99

Abstract: This article uses cross-country panel data on three-digit manufacturing to test for progressive structural convergence in industrial output mix between industrialising and industrialised economies. Regressions based on Logistic and Almost-Ideal models show that industrial deepening entails share losses for light and selected heavy manufacturing, and share gains for engineering and consumer durables. While semi-industrial economies manage to shift into petrochemical and engineering industries, the least industrialised nurture a broad spectrum of non-traditional manufacturing. Diversity in factor endowments and policy notwithstanding, growing similarity in demand and technological diffusion appear to produce weak convergence of industrial structures between developing and developed countries.

Keywords: progressive structural convergence; cross-country panel data; Logistic and Almost-Ideal models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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