Trade and development report, 2016 :   structural transformation for inclusive and sustained growth / 
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. 
 - New York :  United Nations,  2016. 
 - xiii, 215 pages :  illustrations ;  30 cm. 
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<br/><br/>Chapter 1: Current Trends and Challenges in the World Economy -- A year of living dangerously -- Recent trends in the world economy -- Growth performance -- International trade -- Recent development in commodity markets -- International capital flows to developing economies -- The slowdown of global trade -- Preliminary observation on the causes of the trade slowdown -- Global trade in the context of international production networks 00 Summing up and implications for the global outlook -- Chapter II: Globalization, Convergence and Structural Transformation -- Introduction -- Globalization and convergence -- Structural transformation: The missing link(s) -- A global enabling environment? -- Conclusions -- Chapter III: The Catch-Up Challenge: Industrialization and Structural Change -- Introduction -- The case for developing manufacturing industries -- The virtues of manufacturing -- Knowledge linkages and productivity growth -- Trends in structural change since 1970 -- Long-term trends -- Impact of structural change and investment on aggregate productivity -- Successful and stalled industrialization and premature deindustrialization -- Catch-up industrialization -- Stalled industrialization -- Premature industrialization -- Making the primary and tertiary sectors work for structural transformation -- The role of the primary sector in structural change -- Making commodity export revenues work for structural transformation -- The role of services in structural transformation -- Conclusions -- Chapter IV: Revisiting the Role of Trade in Manufactures in Industrialization -- Introduction -- A preliminary framework -- Trends in international trade by region -- General trends -- Trade in manufactures -- Structural transformation, productivity growth and trade -- Trade in manufacturers, value added and structural transformation -- Growth in labour productivity and trade in manufacturers -- Export sophistication and diversification -- Global value chains, industrial upgrading and structural transformation -- Gender, industrialization, trade and employment -- Export orientation and women's employment 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789211129038 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> UNDP - Donation 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Commerce--Periodicals.<br/>Economic development--Periodicals.<br/>Developing countries--Commerce--Periodicals.<br/>Developing countries--Economic conditions--Periodicals.