In order to identify main drivers behind changes in electricity and fuel consumptions in the industrial sector in Jordan; a Laspeyers decomposition technique was used to identify the factors affecting this demand during 1998-2005 years Changes have been disaggregated into production, structural, and efficiency effects. Results of the decomposition analysis prove that rapid increases in industri...

This study seeks to investigate the growth in agricultural, industrial and services sector of Pakistan in terms of their relative impacts on poverty reduction within the country. Further, it identifies the dynamic effects of growth on poverty as a way to capture the usual ‘trickle down’ effects. Secondary data ranging from 1981-2010 are used in the analysis and the results are obtained through ...

Abstract By reviewing economic performance, two main phenomena could be identified: The first phenomenon is prior to the third wave of the Industrial Revolution in which limited resources are the predominant input; in other words, physical and natural resources are much more credited than human resources. The second phenomenon resonates with the third wave of industrial revolution to the presen...

Motivation -Industrial firms survive, sustain and co-evolve by participating in the sector of innovation and production through industrial transactions with each other. However, it is difficult for specialized firms to be aware of and manage accordingly the kind of systemic constraints and opportunities induced by relevant but indirect transactions, as well as the technological and economic req...

Major debates on the industrialization of agrarian economies view labor mobility—sectoral and spatial, from agriculture to industry and from villages and small towns to cities—as central to understanding the pace and nature of industrialization. Many see labor mobility as the result of the commercialization and capitalization of agriculture, which leads to an increasing number of peasants who a...