The service sector is an avenue for economic transformation as not all countries have a
competitive edge in manufacturing. The growing literature on service sector primarily …

Abstract In 2011, Trade Ministers of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) adopted a
Decision that allows WTO Members to accord preferential treatment to services and service …

The study of the influence of service sector expansion on tax revenue is critical, but it has
received little attention. The majority of the studies focused on how the service sector affects …

This paper studies productivity convergence to the regional and national frontiers among
manufacturing firms in India, using panel data over the period 1999 to 2010. We find …

One distinctive characteristic of an acceleration in the services sector in India is that only a
few segments within the overall services sector have shown high and persistent growth …

The economic growth process worldwide has been subject to several disturbances with
different origins. These disruptions have consequences on the economic dynamics of the …

Contribution/Originality: This study is the first to investigate the key factors accounting for the
rising value added in services compared to the slow declining that in agriculture in Africa. It …

East Africa Research Papers in Economics and Finance is a series linked to the
collaborative PhD program in Economics and Management among East Africa national …

Close on the heels of the heady growth of the Green Revolution, Asian economies were
confronted with a developmental challenge of a different kind. As intensive agriculture of the …

This paper studies regional and national productivity convergence among manufacturing
firms in India, using a panel data for the period 1998 to 2009. We find that firms that are …