South Asia has a huge need to create more and better jobs for a growing population – especially in the manufacturing industries where it is underperforming as compared to East Asia. The report examines three critical and relatively understudied drivers of competitiveness: Economies of agglomeration: firms and workers accrue benefits from locating close together in cities or clusters through urbanization and localization. Participation in global value...
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2017/01/01
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115406
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2
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2017/10/03
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Overview
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world development indicator
Citation
Lopez-Acevedo,Gladys C.; Medvedev,Denis; Palmade,Vincent.
South Asia's turn : policies to boost competitiveness and create the next export powerhouse (Vol. 2 of 2) : Overview (English). South Asia Development Matters Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/390731506718465818