All publications: productivity

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development

"This book helps connect the dots between economic theory, the role of capabilities, the lessons from history and the practical challenges of design and implementation of industrial policies. In so doing it provides an excellent policy roadmap for...

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 14

The paradox of US industrial policy: The development state in disguise

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 12

Industrial policy in a harsh climate: The case of South Africa

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 13

Kick-starting industrial transformation in sub-Saharan Africa

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 10

Industrial policy as an effective development tool: Lessons from Brazil

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 11

The state and industrial policy in Chinese economic development

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 9

Export sophistication, growth and the middle-income trap

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 8

Building capabilities in the software service industry in India: Skill formation and learning of domestic enterprises in value chains

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 6

Industrial development strategies in Costa Rica: When structural change and domestic capability accumulation diverge

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 7

Skills development strategies and the high road to development in the Republic of Korea

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 4

A theory of capabilities for productive transformation: Learning to catch up

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 5

Industrial policy in the era of vertically specialized industrialization

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 3

The role of industrial and exchange rate policies in promoting structural change, productivity and employment

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 2

Making industrial policy work for development

Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development - Chapter 1

Latin American structuralism and production development strategies

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 47

Deregulating labour markets: how robust is the analysis of recent IMF working papers?

Second edition

Ergonomic checkpoints in agriculture: Practical and easy-to-implement solutions for improving safety, health and working conditions

This manual presents practical solutions for improvements in agricultural work and rural life from an ergonomics point of view. The checkpoints it lists are intended to be used as a means to improve existing working and living conditions, for better...

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprise

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) is a practical training and in-factory counseling programme that improves productivity and working conditions in SMEs. The product demonstrates best international practice in the...

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 45

Analysis of employment, real wage, and productivity trends in South Africa since 1994

Beyond Macroeconomic Stability: Structural Transformation and Inclusive Development

This thought-provoking volume goes beyond the narrow conceptualization of macroeconomic stability to explore the link between structural transformation and inclusive development. It examines three thematic pillars: the limits of conventional...