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Shaping the macro-economy in response to COVID-19: A responsible economic stimulus, a stable financial sector and a revival in exports. Methodology Paper
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Carbon border adjustment: a discussion on effectiveness and efficiency
14 December 2020 | COVID-19 and Investor State Dispute Settlement provisions: Challenges and actions to protect the economic recovery in Africa Event
The evolving fiscal and liquidity stimulus packages in response to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa
Assessment of World Bank Prioritisation of Economic Transformation in Country Strategies and Country Project Portfolios
Digitally enabled economic transformation and poverty reduction: Evidence from Kenya and Cambodia
Enhancing the resilience of global value chains to climate change: lessons from Covid-19
Promoting prosperity: Ten opportunities on economic development for the new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Assessing Sri Lanka's economic transformation pathways, 1977-2019
AG-Platforms in East Africa: National and regional policy gaps
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Sherillyn Raga (ODI) |Halted economic transformation as a consequence of coronavirus: evidence and implications from employment data in the Philippines
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June 2020| Negotiating and implementing investment policies in the AfCFTA - Online Capacity building event
Jodie Keane (ODI)| Enhancing resilience within global value chains: the implications of COVID-19 for climate change adaptation and mitigation policies
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Extraordinarily high growth rates are almost always the result of rapid structural transformation, industrialization in particular "Extraordinarily high growth rates are almost always the result of rapid structural transformation, industrialization in particular"
- Rodrik, 2014 Structural transformation-the birth and expansion of new (higher-productivity) industries and the transfer of labor from traditional or lower-productivity activities to modern ones "Structural transformation-the birth and expansion of new (higher-productivity) industries and the transfer of labor from traditional or lower-productivity activities to modern ones"
- Rodrik, 2014 Transformation is where ‘labor and other resources move from agriculture into modern economic activities, overall productivity rises and incomes expand "Transformation is where 'labor and other resources move from agriculture into modern economic activities, overall productivity rises and incomes expand"
- McMillan, 2014 A process moving labour and other resources from lower to higher productive activities "A process moving labour and other resources from lower to higher productive activities"
- SET, 2015 Economic transformation involves moving labour from low to higher productive activities "Economic transformation involves moving labour from low to higher productive activities"
- Dirk Willem te Velde, 2013 Economic Transformation is the continued dynamic reallocation of resources from less productive to more productive sectors and activities "Economic Transformation is the continued dynamic reallocation of resources from less productive to more productive sectors and activities"
- EPS PEAKS, 2013 Transformation doesn’t happen overnight but is a long-term process. It requires constructive relationships between the state and the private sector "Transformation doesn't happen overnight but is a long-term process. It requires constructive relationships between the state and the private sector"
- ACET, 2014 If ‘jobs’ are increasingly a key developing-country policy objective, ‘economic transformation’ is increasingly seen as the means of achieving this "If 'jobs' are increasingly a key developing-country policy objective, 'economic transformation' is increasingly seen as the means of achieving this"
- - ECDPM and ODI, 2015 Transformation will come through diversifying African economies, boosting their international competitiveness "Transformation will come through diversifying African economies, boosting their international competitiveness"
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