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

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dc.contributor.authorRawski, Thomas G.
dc.contributor.authorDinh, Hinh T.
dc.contributor.authorZafar, Ali
dc.contributor.authorWang, Lihong
dc.contributor.authorMavroeidi, Eleonora
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-12T16:44:48Z
dc.date.available2013-09-12T16:44:48Z
dc.date.issued2013-09
dc.description.abstractDespite 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 economies—Tales from the Development Frontier focuses on the six main binding constraints to competitiveness that nascent light manufacturing industries must overcome in developing countries: the availability, cost, and quality of inputs; access to industrial land; access to finance; trade logistics; entrepreneurial capabilities, both technical and managerial; and worker skills. The volume systematically explores potential growth opportunities in light manufacturing in a carefully selected subset of industries: agribusiness, apparel, leather goods, wood-working, and metal products. It specifies the constraints that need to be addressed before local and international entrepreneurs can take advantage of the latent comparative advantage available to many low-income economies in the target industries. It also proposes policies to ease the constraints—policies that can open the door to rapid increases in industrial output, employment, productivity, and exports. The outcomes described in this volume include both inspiring successes and miserable failures in addressing the binding constraints in the identified sectors. These examples reveal how and why industrial development efforts in poor countries—where, by definition, underlying conditions are far from ideal—can accelerate growth. Most of the firms described in a series of case studies started from a very simple and modest base in an environment full of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. With its rich array of new material, this book will support the ongoing research of policy analysts focused on China and other developing countries. Above all, the volume aims to embolden business entrepreneurs and government officials in low-income countries to pursue newly emerging opportunities to expand and accelerate the growth of light manufacturing in their home economies.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/978-0-8213-9988-0
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-8213-9988-0
dc.identifier.other110.1596/978-0-8213-8276-9
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/15763
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectChinese manufacturing
dc.subjectDevelopment of light manufacturing
dc.subjectIndustrial parks
dc.subjectIndustrial clusters
dc.subjectManufacturing
dc.subjectLight Manufacturing
dc.subjectCase Studies
dc.subjectIndustrial policy
dc.subjectTrading companies
dc.titleTales from the Development Frontier : How China and Other Countries Harness Light Manufacturing to Create Jobs and Prosperityen
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okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaJobs
okr.date.disclosure2013-09-12
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Publication
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.globalpracticeFinance and Markets
okr.globalpracticeTrade and Competitiveness
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/978-0-8213-9988-0
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.countryBangladesh
okr.region.countryChina
okr.region.countryEthiopia
okr.region.countryIndia
okr.region.countryKenya
okr.region.countryLesotho
okr.region.countryMauritius
okr.region.countryPakistan
okr.region.countrySenegal
okr.region.countryTanzania
okr.region.countryViet Nam
okr.region.countryZambia
okr.region.geographicalAfrica
okr.region.geographicalAsia
okr.sectorIndustry and trade :: Other industry
okr.sectorIndustry and trade :: Other domestic and international trade
okr.sectorIndustry and trade :: General industry and trade sector
okr.themeFinancial and private sector development :: Small and medium enterprise support
okr.topicFinance and Financial Sector Development
okr.topicIndustry::Cottage Industry
okr.topicIndustry::General Manufacturing
okr.topicIndustry::Industrial Economics
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade
okr.unitDevelopment Economics (DECVP)
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