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Tales from the Development Frontier : How China and Other Countries Harness Light Manufacturing to Create Jobs and Prosperity.

Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports. Tal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dinh, Hinh T.
Otros Autores: Rawski, Thomas G., Zafar, Ali
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : World Bank Publications, 2013.
©2013
Colección:Online access: World Bank World Bank Open Knowledge Repository.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports. Tales from the Development Frontier recounts efforts to establish light manufacturing clusters in several Asian and African countries, looking in particular at China. A companion volume to Light Manufacturing in Africa-which laid out a strategy for injecting new industrial growth nodes into African eco.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (555 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780821399897
0821399896