At Your Service? : The Promise of Services-Led Development.
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New York :
World Bank Publications,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Growing Importance of Services to a Manufacturing Core
- The Role of Linkages in Expanding Inclusion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 5 Boosting Productivity to Keep Up the Good Work: Policy Imperatives
- Introduction
- The Policy Agenda: Trade, Technology, Training, and Targeting (the 4Ts)
- Where Countries Stand in the 4Ts Space
- Effects of Variations in Technology and Intersectoral Linkages' Trends across Subsectors on Prioritization in the 4Ts across Countries
- The Way Forward: How to Improve the 4Ts
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 6 Conclusion: In the Service of Development?
- Introduction
- The Promise of Services-Led Development
- A Data Agenda for Services
- Appendix A. Summary Measures for Trade, Technology, Training, and Targeting (the 4Ts)
- Boxes
- Box 1.1 Trade in Services: A Tale of Four Modes
- Box 2.1 Informality in the Services Sector
- Box 2.2 COVID-19's Impact on the Services Sector
- Box 3.1 Technological Change and the Rising Demand for Services