Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161449 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 573
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
This paper revisits the role of the manufacturing sector during the middle-income stage. By exploiting a large dataset that covers internationally comparable sectoral information, we prove that the manufacturing sector is imbued with three important characteristics. First, for middle-income economies, manufacturing pulls along services, instead of the other way around. A decline in the manufacturing sector growth rate will negatively affect the growth rate of the services sector, in both the short-run and long-run meanings. Second, we show that manufacturing development not only promotes the incentives of savings, but also accelerates the pace of technological accumulation. Third, an increased share of the manufacturing sector in middle-income economies can enhance the utilization of human capital and economic institutions. Our empirical findings indicate that the manufacturing sector is still the key engine of economic growth for middle-income economies.
Subjects: 
manufacturing sector
middle-income status
middle-income economies
empirical research
dataset
economic growth
growth engine
services
savings
technological accumulation
human capital
economic institutions
JEL: 
L16
O14
O47
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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