Results for tag: Structural Change
New GGDC Research Highlights Agriculture’s Surprising Role in Global Productivity Convergence
A new paper by Robert Inklaar and Ryan Marapin, "Accounting for productivity convergence: sectors and structural change," offers fresh insights into the forces behind global labour productivity convergence from 1990 to 2018.
2024 Maddison Lecture by Douglas Gollin
On May 30, Douglas Gollin of Tufts and Oxford University will give the 2024 Maddison Lecture. Gollin will speak on the topic of Structural Transformation and Growth. Economists have long recognised that for a country to develop, its economy should...
Structural Transformation in Transition Economies: New Data and New Insights
The new Economic Transformation Database of Transition Economies [ETD-TE] allows for analysis of the inter-industry structural change performance of the countries of the former Soviet Union for the first time. In the period 1990-2019 - the three decades...
GGDC Releases Productivity Level Database 2023 Edition
Comparing productivity at the sectoral level requires estimates of relatives prices at the sectoral level. The 2023 edition of the Productivity Level Database provides the most comprehensive GGDC dataset to date, covering 84 countries and 12 sectors across...
Grant for investigating Structural Change in sub-Saharan Africa
Hagen Kruse and Gaaitzen de Vries, together with Kei-Mu Yi and Yabo Vidogbena (both at the University of Houston), have obtained a research grant from STEG/CEPR. They will take a quantitative modelling approach to investigate the driving forces of...
Paper Published in the IMF Economic Review
The paper “A manufacturing renaissance? Industrialization trends in the developing world” written by Hagen Kruse, Emmanuel Mensah, Kunal Sen, and Gaaitzen de Vries has been published in the IMF Economic Review.
WIOD migration and DataverseNL
The original website of the World Input-Output Database (WIOD), previously hosted at www.wiod.org, has been migrated to the GGDC website. An archived version of the original website is still available, but will no longer be updated. All information and...
Request for Research Proposals ETD
Deadline for proposal submissions is 31 January 2022. United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is requesting research proposals on the Economic Transformation Database (ETD) project. This project aims to...
Launch of the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database
Today, the Economic Transformation Database has been released. This database has been developed by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, supported by UNU-WIDER. The database provides information on output and employment for 12 sectors of the economy...
Robert Inklaar new GGDC director
On September 1, Robert Inklaar has taken over as director of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) from Marcel Timmer.