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RESEARCH AND STATISTICS BRANCH - UNIDO
WORKING PAPER 24/2009
Structural Change in the World Economy: Main Features and Trends
Olga Memedovic - Research and Statistics Branch - Programme Coordination and Field Operations Division UNIDO
Lelio Iapadre - Associate Professor of International Economics - University of L’Aquila
Johns Hopkins University — SAIS Bologna Center
UNU Institute for Comparative Regional Integration Studies

Contents

List of figures.................................................................................................iv

List of tables..................................................................................................iv

Abstract.........................................................................................................v

Introduction....................................................................................................1

1. Structural change in the literature.................................................................3

2. Changes in the structure of world production ..............................................6

2.1 The distribution of production across sectors ............................................6

2.2 Regional shares of world value added........................................................9

3. Changes in the structure of the world manufacturing industry......................12

3.1 National patterns of manufacturing specialisation .....................................14

3.2 The intensity of structural change and specialisation in national

manufacturing patterns ..................................................................................37

4. Conclusions ..............................................................................................41

References ...................................................................................................43

Annex ..........................................................................................................45

List of figures

Figure 1 (a) World value added by sector.......................................................6

Figure 1 (b) World value added by sector........................................................7

Figure 2 (a) World value added by region .......................................................9

Figure 2 (b) World value added by region………………………...………..10

Figure 3 Egypt: Structure of the manufacturing industry……………………..14

Figure 4 Ethiopia: Structure of the manufacturing industry ..............................15

Figure 5 Kenya: Structure of the manufacturing industry.................................16

Figure 6 South Africa: Structure of the manufacturing industry .......................17

Figure 7 China: Structure of the manufacturing industry .................................18

Figure 8 China (Taiwan): Structure of the manufacturing industry....................19

Figure 9 India: Structure of the manufacturing industry....................................20

Figure 10 Japan: Structure of the manufacturing industry.................................21

Figure 11 South Korea: Structure of the manufacturing industry......................22

Figure 12 Singapore: Structure of the manufacturing industry..........................23

Figure 13 Finland: Structure of the manufacturing industry...............................24

Figure 14 Italy: Structure of the manufacturing industry...................................25

Figure 15 Netherlands: Structure of the manufacturing industry.......................26

Figure 16 Poland: Structure of the manufacturing industry...............................27

Figure 17 Russia: Structure of the manufacturing industry ...............................28

Figure 18 Spain: Structure of the manufacturing industry.................................29

Figure 19 Turkey: Structure of the manufacturing industry ..............................30

Figure 20 United Kingdom: Structure of the manufacturing industry.................31

Figure 21 Argentina: Structure of the manufacturing industry...........................32

Figure 22 Brazil: Structure of the manufacturing industry ................................33

Figure 23 Mexico: Structure of the manufacturing industry..............................34

Figure 24 Canada: Structure of the manufacturing industry..............................35

Figure 25 United States: Structure of the manufacturing industry......................36

Figure 26 Australia: Structure of the manufacturing industry ............................37

List of tables

Table 1 Structure of the manufacturing industry...............................................13

Table 2 Finger-Kreinin index of structural change in the manufacturing industry ..................39

Table 3 Finger-Kreinin index of relative concentration of the manufacturing industry..…41

Table 4 (a,b) Sector Distribution of total value added by region............45

Table 5 (a,b) Sector Distribution of total value added by region............47

Table 6 Changes in regional shares of world value added 2000-2008: CMS analysis.......49

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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