TY - BOOK ID - 52468594 TI - Tales from the development frontier : how China and other countries harness light manufacturing to create jobs and prosperity AU - Dinh, Hinh T. AU - Mavroeidi, Eleonora AU - Tong, Xin AU - Li, Pengfei AU - World Bank PY - 2013 SN - 0821399888 1299939007 0821399896 PB - Washington, District of Columbia : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Manufacturing industries KW - Economic development UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52468594 AB - Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports. Tales from the Development Frontier recounts efforts to establish light manufacturing clusters in several Asian and African countries, looking in particular at China. A companion volume to Light Manufacturing in Africa-which laid out a strategy for injecting new industrial growth nodes into African eco ER -