Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Of Goods and Services: Inside the Black Box -- Introduction -- Services, Jobs, and Economic Transformation -- Scale, Innovation, Spillovers, and Job Creation: Revisiting the "Uniqueness&...

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Hauptverfasser:	Nayyar, Gaurav 1981- (VerfasserIn), Hallward-Driemeier, Mary 1966- (VerfasserIn), Davies, Elwyn (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Washington, DC World Bank Publications [2021]
Ausgabe:	1st ed
Schlagworte:	Electronic books
Online-Zugang:	FWS01 FWS02
Zusammenfassung:	Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Of Goods and Services: Inside the Black Box -- Introduction -- Services, Jobs, and Economic Transformation -- Scale, Innovation, Spillovers, and Job Creation: Revisiting the "Uniqueness" of Manufacturing -- The Services Sector Is Not Monolithic -- Implications for Inclusion in Lower-Income Countries -- Conclusion -- Annex 1A Classifications of Economic Activities in the Services Sector -- Annex 1B Adapting the McMillan-Rodrik Decomposition to Show Sectoral Reallocation -- Annex 1C Estimating Kaldor's Laws for the Industry Sector, 1995-2018 -- Notes -- References -- 2 Productivity and Jobs in Services: Mind the Gaps -- Introduction -- Services Firms and Their Productivity: Eight Stylized Facts -- Implications for Productivity Growth -- Implications for Job Creation -- Conclusion -- Annex 2A Data Sources -- Annex 2B Alternative Measures of Scale -- Notes -- References -- Spotlight: Bringing Services to the Surface: The Measurement Challenge -- Introduction -- Measuring Outputs -- Measuring Inputs -- Estimating Productivity -- Measuring Trade -- A Fading Border between Manufacturing and Services -- Measurement of Digital Services -- Data Coverage and Access -- The Way Forward -- Notes -- References -- 3 Will Technology Make the Twain Meet? A Changing Productivity-Jobs Dichotomy in Services -- Introduction -- Reduced Dependence on Physical Proximity -- Increased Role of Automation -- The Rise of Intangible Capital -- Implications for Productivity Growth and Job Creation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Look Before You Leap: Services Before Manufacturing? -- Introduction -- Services and Value Chain Upgrading in Industrialized Countries -- Services Growth without a Manufacturing Core
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ISBN:	9781464817106