The relation between industrialization and economic growth is a subject of continuing controversy. Historically, the rise in the share of manufacturing in output and employment as per capita income increases...
This article reviews the experience of growth and industrialization in the postwar period in more than 100 economies, drawing on time-series data over a three decade period. Economies are classified according...
Three decades of industrialization. Household survey data and pricing policies in developing countries. Settling defaults in the era of bond finance. Trade policies and the highly indebted countries. The...
The main purpose of this report is to provide more accurate measures of the dimensions of structural transformation during the process of development, by estimating long-run patterns of development for...
The relation between industrialization and economic growth is a subject of continuing controversy. Historically, the rise in the share of manufacturing in output and employment as per capita income increases...
This review covers the empirical research carried out over the past 30 years with respect to the process of development. It examines the extent to which economic theories and generalizations derived from...
This Banks world newsletter includes some of the following issue: who is moving where and when, by Alan Drattell; automating space management, by K. Ikramullah; International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
A discussion of the common elements of the experience of large developing countries with industrialization provides a comparative framework for assessing the performance of the Chinese economy. The countries...
Since 1973 attempts to adjust the structure of the world economy to rapidly rising costs of energy have dominated all other economic issues. This paper argues that the energy transition is closer to completion...
The self-perpetuating plight of the absolute poor has tended to cut them off from the economic progress that has taken place elsewhere in their own societies. They have remained largely outside the entire...
The main effects of different types of trade and development strategy on industrial growth and structure are examined. The analytical approach treats internal and external factors together in an interindustry...
In this issue: Feature article: An overview of research at the World Bank. Completed research: The role of feeder roads in rural development. Standards of reliability of urban electricity supply. Appropriate...
The development of policies for the redistribution of income in developing nations experiencing economic growth is examined. In the early stages of economic development, income tends to be concentrated...
L’approche vis-à-vis des politiques de développement qui est illustrée dans ce volume résulte de deux axes de recherche parallèles. Le premier consiste à développer des modèles qui prennent en compte les...
The approach to development policy that is illustrated in this volume has emerged from two parallel lines of research. The first consists in developing models that incorporate basic features of the resource...
Ce document examine l’élaboration de politiques pour la redistribution des revenus dans les pays en développement connaissant une croissance économique. Au premier stade du développement économique, le...
The approach to development policy that is illustrated in this volume has emerged from two parallel lines of research. The first consists in developing models that incorporate basic features of the resource...
Structuralist methodology and development policy are examined and compared to other major development policy approaches. The structuralist approach focuses on various types of structural disequilibria...
The past forty years have seen numerous attempts to discover uniformities in economic behavior by a comparison of economies at different levels of income. Many detailed comparisons have focused on individual...
The past forty years have seen numerous attempts to discover uniformities in economic behavior by a comparison of economies at different levels of income. Many detailed comparisons have focused on individual...