Structural Change and Industrial Development in the BRICS

by Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Haraguchi, Nobuya

• ISBN13: 9780198725077
• ISBN10: 0198725078
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-08-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Wim Naude, Dean, Maastricht School of Management and Professor, Maastricht University,Adam Szirmai, Professorial Fellow United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT); Professor of Development Economics, Maastricht University,Nobuya Haraguchi, Industrial Research Officer, United Nations Industrial Development Organization

Wim Naude holds the Chair in Business and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. He is also Dean of the Maastricht School of Management and a Research Fellow at IZA, the Institute for the Study of Labour, in Bonn, Germany. A graduate of the University of Warwick, he was previously Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT in Maastricht, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER in Helsinki, Professor and Director of Research at North-West University in South Africa and Research Officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.


Adam Szirmai is Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT and Professor of Development Economics at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance of Maastricht University. His research focuses on structural change, innovation and long-term economic development in developing countries. Jointly with Wim Naude and Micheline Goedhuys he is editor Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Development published by Oxford University Press in 2011 and with Wim Naude and Ludovico Alcorta editor of Pathways to Industrialization in the 21st Century published by Oxford University Press in 2013. A second edition of his textbook Socio-Economic Development is to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.

Nobuya Haraguchi is Industrial Research Officer at the Research, Statistics and Industrial Policy branch of UNIDO in Vienna. He led a research team for the production of UNIDO Industrial Development Report 2013, Sustaining Employment Growth: The Role of Manufacturing and Structural Change. He has published widely on structural change, patterns of manufacturing and industrial policy and practice. Before joining UNIDO, he taught macroeconomics at St. John's University in the United States. He holds a PhD from the University of London.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Overview, Wim Naude, Adam Szirmai and Nobuya Haraguchi
PART I: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES
2. Structural Change in the BRICS' Manufacturing Industries, Nobuya Haraguchi and Gorazd Rezonja
3. Deconstructing the BRICs: Structural Transformation and Aggregate Productivity Growth, Gjalt de Vries, Abdul Erumban, Marcel Timmer, Ilya Voskoboynikov, and Harry X. Wu
PART II: COUNTRY EXPERIENCES
4. Industrial Upgrading and Poverty Reduction in China, Justin Jifu Lin and Miaojie Yu
5. Structural Change, Employment, and Poverty Alleviation in China, Ximing Yue
6. The Manufacturing Sector in Economic Development, Employment, and Incomes: The Case of Russia, Boris Kuznetsov, Andrei Yakovlev, and Vladimir Gimpelson
7. Industrial Growth and Structural Change: Brazil in a Long-Run Perspective, Renato Perim Colistete and Dante Mendes Aldrighi
8. Structural Change, Industrialisation and Poverty Reduction: The Case of India, Aradhna Aggarwal Delhi and Nagesh Kumar
9. The Structure and Performance of Manufacturing in South Africa, David Ellis Kaplan
PART III: THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES
10. The Dynamics of Global Value Chain Development: A BRICS Perspective, Fred Nixson
11. Foreign Multinational Enterprises in the Food and Beverages Industries of BRICS, Ruth Rama
12. Industrialisation and Technological Change in the BRICS: The Role of Foreign and Domestic Investment, Wim Naude, Adam Szirmai and Alejandro Lavopa
13. Investment, Technological Change and Industrial Development: The Case of China, Yanyun Zhao and Siming Liu
14. Internal and External Demand and Manufacturing Development in BRICS, John Weiss
15. The Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technologies in BRICS, Michiko Iizuka, Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas, and Eva Dantas
16. Industrial policy in the BRICS: Similarities, Differences and Future Challenges, Michele Di Maio
PART IV: CONCLUSION
17. Conclusion, Wim Naude, Adam Szirmai, and Nobuya Haraguchi