This paper examines industrialization in developing countries. It introduces the GGDC/UNU-
WIDER Economic Transformation Database, which provides consistent annual data of …

We investigate the scale, causes and timing of significant episodes of industrialization and
deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point …

This article presents data and analyzes the structure of employment in 13 African economies
at the administrative unit level, with a focus on the role of services. We provide two novel …

Improving employment opportunities in Africa is particularly salient now and will remain
important given the number of young people expected to enter the job market. To what …

This paper presents an empirical framework that explores the relationship between poverty
reduction and changes in the production structure of developing countries. We use the new …

This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production
growth. We use the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the …

Structural change has played an important role in the overall process of economic
development. Africa seems to have faced greater difficulty than Asia in terms of achieving …

The “rise of the Rest” and almost all successes in economic development have relied on late
industrialization. However, the consensus that manufacturing was the strategic road for …

This paper tests for convergence in labour productivity at the local level in 10 sub‐Saharan
countries, disaggregated into 1136 administrative entities. This work combines nighttime …

This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to
2018, using various estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization …