Globalization, Structural Change, and Productivity Growth, with an Update on Africa

By Margaret S. McMillan, Dani Rodrik, Íñigo Verduzco-Gallo. 2014

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Structural Transformation in Africa: Static Gains, Dynamic Losses (2015, background): “McMillan et al. (2014) argue that there has been a turnaround in Africa from growth-reducing structural change during the 1990s to growth-enhancing structural change since 2000.”
Rural Roads and Local Economic Development (2018, background): “There is considerable evidence that across the developing world, labor productivity outside agricul- ture is much higher than within agriculture (Gollin et al., 2014; McMillan et al., 2014).”
The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa (2019, background): “…& Waugh, 2013; Gollin et al. , 2014; Rodrik, 2015); improvements in trends in structural change in Africa in the 2000s (McMillan & Harttgen, 2014; McMillan & Rodrik, 2014); and how trade liberalization can shift workers across sectors and across firms within sectors (see e.g. Attanasio et al. ,…”
Product export diversification and sustainable economic growth in developing countries (2019, result): “Although SSA economies have experienced remarkable economic growth since the early 2000s, our results support the skepticism of some development economists about the structural changes that accompanied it (McMillan et al., 2014).”
Patterns of structural Change in Developing Countries (2015, background): “For example, manufacturing employment shares increased in Botswana and Tanzania during the past decades (McMillan et al. 2013).”
Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium-scale farms (2016, background): “Migration to towns and cities and from farm to non-farm activities is generally found to be associated with a rise in average labor productivity (McMillan et al., 2014), but there is a limit to the degree of urban migration that is possible without saturating the nonfarm job situation,17 and a…”