Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View

This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing intens...

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Main Authors:	Enache, Maria, Ghani, Ejaz, O'Connell, Stephen
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	growth jobs structural transformation sector shares labor shares
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26561778/structural-transformation-africa-historical-view http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24824

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spelling	okr-10986-248242021-04-23T14:04:27Z Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View Enache, Maria Ghani, Ejaz O'Connell, Stephen growth jobs structural transformation sector shares labor shares This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing intensity and gross value added per capita. The paper then assesses historical patterns of productivity convergence at a more detailed sector disaggregation than has been previously available. The analysis finds suggestive evidence that, at least in recent decades, convergent pressures in services industries are stronger than in manufacturing. Focusing on African economies, the paper presents a country-by-country historical analysis of structural change over the past four decades. Given the varied patterns and trends in structural change across African countries, it is difficult to characterize structural change from a single, continent-wide perspective. Some countries saw an early transition of labor out of agriculture, with manufacturing absorbing this labor in the decades prior to the 1990s, while another group of countries saw a later transition out of agriculture, where the services sector played a large role in labor reallocations in the 1990s and 2000s. Finally, the paper provides a country-by-country structural transformation scorecard to assess patterns of structural change in jobs and growth. 2016-08-09T16:18:02Z 2016-08-09T16:18:02Z 2016-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26561778/structural-transformation-africa-historical-view http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24824 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7743 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Tanzania
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description	This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing intensity and gross value added per capita. The paper then assesses historical patterns of productivity convergence at a more detailed sector disaggregation than has been previously available. The analysis finds suggestive evidence that, at least in recent decades, convergent pressures in services industries are stronger than in manufacturing. Focusing on African economies, the paper presents a country-by-country historical analysis of structural change over the past four decades. Given the varied patterns and trends in structural change across African countries, it is difficult to characterize structural change from a single, continent-wide perspective. Some countries saw an early transition of labor out of agriculture, with manufacturing absorbing this labor in the decades prior to the 1990s, while another group of countries saw a later transition out of agriculture, where the services sector played a large role in labor reallocations in the 1990s and 2000s. Finally, the paper provides a country-by-country structural transformation scorecard to assess patterns of structural change in jobs and growth.
format	Working Paper
author	Enache, Maria Ghani, Ejaz O'Connell, Stephen
author_facet	Enache, Maria Ghani, Ejaz O'Connell, Stephen
author_sort	Enache, Maria
title	Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View
title_short	Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View
title_full	Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View
title_fullStr	Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View
title_full_unstemmed	Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View
title_sort	structural transformation in africa : a historical view
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26561778/structural-transformation-africa-historical-view http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24824
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Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View

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