[HTML][HTML] A sacrifice for the greater good? On the main drivers of excessive land take and land use change in Hungary

G Csomós, Á Szalai, JZ Farkas - Land Use Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite continuous population decline or stagnation, many Central and Eastern European
cities experience urban sprawl and expansion, accompanied by excessive land take and …

Adaptation of solar power in the Global south: Prospects, challenges and opportunities

K Ukoba, KO Yoro, O Eterigho-Ikelegbe, C Ibegbulam… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Abstract The Global South comprising economically disadvantaged regions of the world face
various challenges such as limited access to electricity, clean water, industrialization, and …

Labor productivity growth and industrialization in Africa

M McMillan, A Zeufack - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Manufacturing has made an important contribution to raising living standards in many parts
of the world. Concerns about premature deindustrialization have made some observers …

Time use and gender in Africa in times of structural transformation

T Dinkelman, LR Ngai - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Many African countries are still in the early stages of structural transformation. Typically, as
economies move through the structural transformation, activities once conducted within the …

[PDF][PDF] The Economic Transformation Database (ETD): content, sources, and methods

G De Vries, L Arfelt, D Drees, M Godemann… - Technical Note …, 2021 - wider.unu.edu
This note introduces the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database (ETD),
which provides time series of employment and real and nominal value added by 12 sectors …

Africa's manufacturing puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian firms

X Diao, M Ellis, MS McMillan, D Rodrik - 2021 - nber.org
Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in
agriculture, a declining share of the labor force employed in agriculture and declining …

New views of structural transformation: insights from recent literature

D Gollin, JP Kaboski - Oxford Development Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes an emerging literature in economics that aims to merge macro issues
of structural change and growth with micro data and analysis. This literature focuses on a set …

The AfCFTA and African trade—an introduction to the special issue

H Fofack, A Mold - Journal of African Trade, 2021 - Springer
The agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has been
attracting a great deal of attention in academic and policy circles, as well as within the …

Does digitalization limit the proliferation of the shadow economy in African countries? An in‐depth panel analysis

EU Haruna, U Alhassan - African Development Review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the relationship between digitalization and the shadow economy in 42
African countries using unbalanced panel data from 2003 to 2016. We begin by drawing on …

Exploitative and exploratory search: Dynamic capabilities enhancing SME adaptation, new product development, and environmental performance

C Sarfo, M Fakhar Manesh, A Caputo - Journal of Small Business …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study delves into how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adapt to market
changes and enhance environmental performance through exploitative and exploratory …