The Pursuit of Industry

Newman, Carol; Page, John T.; Rand, John; Shimeles, Abebe; Söderbom, Måns; Tarp, Finn

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198776987.003.0001

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“…In 1998 the Ethiopian government launched a strategy aimed at promoting labourintensive manufactured exports (Newman et al, 2016). The current trajectory could suggest the basis for a long-term virtuous cycle of rising state welfare interventions, supported by rising productivity and a growing industrial sector, which should, in the long term, be supported by, and in turn support, growing educational enrolment and quality.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Curriculum Reform, Assessment and National Qualifications Frameworks

Fleisch¹,

Maringe²,

Gultig³

et al. 2019

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How successful has the practical implementation of new curricula been? Given the challenges, how can resource-constrained Ministries implement curriculum reform on the ground? While there have been few rigorously designed evaluations of system-wide competency-based curriculum reforms, the accumulation of evidence from a variety of sources suggests that most of these initiatives have been less than successful. While the likely reasons for the lack of success are many and varied, the research can be categorised into those related to pragmatic (often implementation) challenges and those that argue that the idea of competence-based educational reform is conceptually flawed. Major Curriculum evaluation effort Authors/Sponsors Overall judgment Major obstacles to success Review of competency-based reforms in five Francophone Countries Gauthier, 2013 CBE did not improve student learning outcomes Conceptual deficiencies amongst implementers Implementation of CBE reforms Esongo 2017 Yessoufou 2014 Komba & Mwandaji, 2015 etc.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Curriculum Reform, Assessment and National Qualifications Frameworks

Fleisch¹,

Maringe²,

Gultig³

et al. 2019

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“…Nigeria too implemented economic policies with an aim to make industrial sector internationally competitive. Though these efforts had brought some acceleration in industrial growth, the manufacturing sector is still below the desired levels in these countries (Newman et al, 2016a) and faces several fundamental challenges. The high cost of credit, unreliable power supplies and rising fuel prices are stalling industrialisation in these economies (Ackah et al, 2016).…”

Section: Conclusion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Premature Deindustrialisation Stall Growth? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Ravindran

Manalaya

2022

Progress in Development Studies

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Structural transformation (ST) accelerates growth when labour transition occurs from low-productivity to high-productivity sectors. However, evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) indicates that the manufacturing sector is not generating enough employment opportunities and that labour absorption is primarily occurring in low-productivity service activities—a process known as premature deindustrialisation that hinders the growth-enhancing effect of ST. This article contributes by quantifying the effect of labour movement across sectors and estimating its impact on growth in the region. We apply the Shapley decomposition technique to extract the effect of ST on change in labour productivity. Next, by using a panel ARDL framework, we analyse the impact of ST on long-run economic growth for 12 middle-income economies from SSA for the period 1992–2017. Our findings suggest that in the long-run, ST towards low productivity service activities is having a growth-depressing effect on these economies. Although middle-income African economies have adopted several policy initiatives to reverse the deindustrialisation trend, our findings show that these have not (so far) generated economic growth. Further efforts are needed in these countries to foster the investment climate, infrastructure, financial sector, skills and regional integration needed for labour transition towards high productivity sectors.

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“…In 1986, at the Sixth Congress of the Vietnam Communist Party, Vietnam launched the Ðổi Mới (renovation) policy to turn a central planning subsidy economy into a socialist market economy. This included measures to stabilize the economy, develop a private sector, expand light industrial production, stimulate exportoriented growth, attract global investments, and increase agricultural production (Ljunggren 1997;T.T.A. Nguyen, Luu & Trinh 2016).…”

Section: Modernization and Industrializationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…9 The Ðổi Mới policy led to expansion of the private sector and entrepreneurship, increased industrial and agricultural production, and foreign investments in Vietnam (T.T.A. Nguyen et al 2016;Perkins 2013). Distribution policies, however, increasingly transferred responsibilities for social protection from the state to families, which, in an echo of Engels, were construed as cells of society's anatomy and the foundation for economic prosperity (Law on Marriage and Family 2000; T. Le 1992;1999).…”

Section: Modernization and Industrializationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disrupting ‘a man's world’: gender, technology, and class in Vietnam's global heavy industry

Rydström

2022

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Only rarely is Vietnam's global heavy industry studied from an anthropological perspective in either its gender or its class dimensions. This article contributes new insights into the ways in which the interagential dynamics of gender and technology from shopfloor to engineer offices coproduce social orders in contesting and perpetuating essentializing notions of femininity and masculinity. Blue‐collar and white‐collar women working in heavy industrial workplaces represent a minority in ‘a man's world’, ambiguously both disidentifying and identifying with notions of a typical ‘female character’ vis‐à‐vis ‘male character’. Women working in heavy industry, the article shows, generate ‘disruption’ by reconfiguring conventions regarding gendered occupation, redefining gendered engagement with technology, and recalibrating images of femininity and masculinity. Doing so means carving out new opportunities and/or provoking crisis in a patrilineal universe. The article analyses the intricate ways in which women's engagement with technology is empowering while simultaneously reinforcing gender‐ and class‐specific inequalities in socialist Vietnam's global market economy.

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The Pursuit of Industry

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Curriculum Reform, Assessment and National Qualifications Frameworks

Curriculum Reform, Assessment and National Qualifications Frameworks

Does Premature Deindustrialisation Stall Growth? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Disrupting ‘a man's world’: gender, technology, and class in Vietnam's global heavy industry

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