At your service? : the promise of services-led development /

Manufacturing-led development has provided the traditional model for creating jobs and prosperity. But in the past three decades the conventional pattern of structural transformation has changed, with the services sector growing faster than the manufacturing sector. This raises critical questions ab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Nayyar, Gaurav, 1981- (Autor), Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, 1966- (Autor), Davies, Elwyn, 1986- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : World Bank Group, [2021]
Temas:
Service industries.
Economic development.
Services (Industrie)
Développement économique.
economic development.
Economic development
Service industries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Of Goods and Services: Inside the Black Box
  • Introduction
  • Services, Jobs, and Economic Transformation
  • Scale, Innovation, Spillovers, and Job Creation: Revisiting the "Uniqueness" of Manufacturing
  • The Services Sector Is Not Monolithic
  • Implications for Inclusion in Lower-Income Countries
  • Conclusion
  • Annex 1A Classifications of Economic Activities in the Services Sector
  • Annex 1B Adapting the McMillan-Rodrik Decomposition to Show Sectoral Reallocation
  • Annex 1C Estimating Kaldor's Laws for the Industry Sector, 1995-2018
  • Notes
  • References
  • 2 Productivity and Jobs in Services: Mind the Gaps
  • Introduction
  • Services Firms and Their Productivity: Eight Stylized Facts
  • Implications for Productivity Growth
  • Implications for Job Creation
  • Conclusion
  • Annex 2A Data Sources
  • Annex 2B Alternative Measures of Scale
  • Notes
  • References
  • Spotlight: Bringing Services to the Surface: The Measurement Challenge
  • Introduction
  • Measuring Outputs
  • Measuring Inputs
  • Estimating Productivity
  • Measuring Trade
  • A Fading Border between Manufacturing and Services
  • Measurement of Digital Services
  • Data Coverage and Access
  • The Way Forward
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3 Will Technology Make the Twain Meet? A Changing Productivity-Jobs Dichotomy in Services
  • Introduction
  • Reduced Dependence on Physical Proximity
  • Increased Role of Automation
  • The Rise of Intangible Capital
  • Implications for Productivity Growth and Job Creation
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4 Look Before You Leap: Services Before Manufacturing?
  • Introduction
  • Services and Value Chain Upgrading in Industrialized Countries
  • Services Growth without a Manufacturing Core
  • Growing Importance of Services to a Manufacturing Core
  • The Role of Linkages in Expanding Inclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5 Boosting Productivity to Keep Up the Good Work: Policy Imperatives
  • Introduction
  • The Policy Agenda: Trade, Technology, Training, and Targeting (the 4Ts)
  • Where Countries Stand in the 4Ts Space
  • Effects of Variations in Technology and Intersectoral Linkages' Trends across Subsectors on Prioritization in the 4Ts across Countries
  • The Way Forward: How to Improve the 4Ts
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 6 Conclusion: In the Service of Development?
  • Introduction
  • The Promise of Services-Led Development
  • A Data Agenda for Services
  • Appendix A. Summary Measures for Trade, Technology, Training, and Targeting (the 4Ts)
  • Boxes
  • Box 1.1 Trade in Services: A Tale of Four Modes
  • Box 2.1 Informality in the Services Sector
  • Box 2.2 COVID-19's Impact on the Services Sector
  • Box 3.1 Technological Change and the Rising Demand for Services
  • Box 3.2 AI, Jobs, and the Demand for Skills in India's ICT Services Sector.

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