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Activation of a Modern Industry

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Ping Wang () (Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University and NBER)
Danyang Xie (International Monetary Fund and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

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This paper constructs an integrated framework to disentangle the underlying economic mechanism of industrial transformation. We consider three essential elements for the analysis: skill requirements, industry wide spillovers and degrees of consumption subsistence. We find that human and nonhuman resources, production factor matching and industrial coordination are all important for activating a modern industry. In the process of industrial transformation, job destruction may exceed job creation, and income distribution may get worse immediately following the activation of a modern industry. An array of policy prescriptions for advancing a poor country are provided.

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