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Services and Structural Transformation Workshop

February 1, 2023

World Bank, MC 13-121

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  • Structural transformation in the past three decades has been driven by a fast-growing services sector, which has outpaced the manufacturing sector in many developing economies. Yet services-led development has been understudied by researchers and underappreciated by policy makers as a means to raise incomes and reduce poverty.  How can policy makers transform their economies by utilizing the services sector as a source of productivity gains and job creation? 

    The Services and Structural Transformation Workshop, hosted by the World Bank EFI Chief Economist¡¯s Office, showcased recent evidence on how the services sector will be increasingly central to productive structural transformation in emerging market and developing economies. A slate of leading experts delivered presentations on sectoral labor productivity, deindustrialization and industry polarization, growth dynamics in the services sector, the industrialization of services, and job creation in the services sector. The full-day event concluded with a panel discussion on policy priorities to leverage services-led growth.

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    Opening Remarks ()

    • Pablo Saavedra, Vice President, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, World Bank

    Session I: Structural Transformation and the Services Sector ()

    • Moderator: Gaurav Nayyar, World Bank

    New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity: Implications for Industrialization and Development

    • Presenter: Richard Rogerson, Princeton University ()
    • Discussant: Ana Fernandes, World Bank ()

    Deindustrialization and Industry Polarization

    • Presenter: Kei-Mu Yi, University of Houston ()
    • Discussant: Daria Taglioni, World Bank ()

    Session II: Growth Dynamics in the Services Sector ()

    • Moderator: Franziska Ohnsorge, World Bank

    Growing Like India: The Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth

    • Presenter: Michael Peters, Yale University ()
    • Discussant: Prachi Mishra, International Monetary Fund ()

    Manufacturing-led Services Growth and Structural Change: Evidence from Turkey

    • Presenter: Banu Demir, University of Oxford ()
    • Discussant: Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins University ()

    Keynote Address: Can Services Drive Growth? ()

    • Moderator: Ayhan Kose, World Bank
    • Presenter: Dani Rodrik, Harvard University  () 

    Session III: The Industrialization of Services ()

    • Moderator: Mona Haddad, World Bank

    The Industrial Revolution in Services

    • Presenter: Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago ()
    • Discussant: Kerem Co?ar, University of Virginia () 

    Globotics and Macroeconomics: Globalization and Automation of the Service Sector

    • Presenter: Richard Baldwin, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ()
    • Discussant: Petia Topalova, International Monetary Fund ()

    Session IV: Jobs in the Services Sector ()

    • Moderator: Kathleen Beegle, World Bank

    Services, Jobs, and Economic Development in Africa

    • Presenter: Bernard Hoekman, European University Institute ()
    • Discussant: Andrew Dabalen, World Bank

    Learning-by-Working in the Services Sector: Evidence from Brazil

    • Presenter: Paulo Bastos, World Bank ()
    • Discussant: Maggie Chen, George Washington University ()

    Session V: Policy Panel: Leveraging the Services Sector for Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development ()

    • Moderator: Aaditya Mattoo (Chief Economist, East Asia and Pacific, World Bank)
    • Richard Baldwin (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
    • Indermit Gill (Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President, World Bank)
    • Mary Hallward-Driemeier (Senior Economic Advisor, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, World Bank)  
     

     

     

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