Structural Change News
2024 Maddison Lecture by Douglas Gollin
Date: | 16 May 2024 |
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
Date: | 09 January 2024 |
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
Date: | 23 October 2023 |
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
Date: | 09 February 2023 |
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
Date: | 13 September 2022 |
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
Date: | 14 December 2021 |
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 An archived version of the original website is still available, but will no longer be updated.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
Date: | 30 November 2021 |
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...
The Economist: Manufacturing hope in Africa
Date: | 22 March 2021 |
On March 20th, The Economist featured research by the GGDC and UNU-WIDER on the manufacturing renaissance in Africa. A key finding is that the share of people working in manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa has risen from 7.2% of the total in 2010 to 8.4%....
Launch of the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database
Date: | 17 February 2021 |
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...
Workshop on measurement for structural transformation
Date: | 07 September 2020 |
Robert Inklaar new GGDC director
Date: | 01 September 2020 |
On September 1, Robert Inklaar has taken over as director of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) from Marcel Timmer.
Groningen co-leads major international project on Structural Change and Economic Growth
Date: | 04 March 2020 |
For low-income countries to develop, their economies need to transform from rural and agricultural to urban and industrialised. In many sub-Saharan countries, urbanization to date has outpaced industrialization and structural change has largely been from...
UNU WIDER grant and research cooperation
Date: | 09 November 2019 |
A team of researchers at FEB’s Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) received US$223k from UNU WIDER for a multi-year research project on structural change in developing countries. The United Nations University World Institute for Development...
Premature deindustrialization: GGDC data in the Wall Street Journal
Date: | 25 November 2015 |
Author: | Robert Inklaar |
While advanced economies grew rich from specialising in manufacturing and employing a large share of the labor force in this sector, the research of Dani Rodrik suggests that path is no longer available to lower-income economies today. How does he know...