Measuring structural change: The case of China, Malaysia, and Ghana

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dc.creatorBadibanga, Thaddée
dc.creatorDiao, Xinshen
dc.creatorRoe, Terry
dc.creatorSomwaru, Agapi
dc.date2013-03
dc.date2024-10-01T13:55:07Z
dc.date2024-10-01T13:55:07Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:31:13Z
dc.descriptionWe extend the methods developed by Hausmann and Klinger (2006) to measure and compare the dynamics of a country’s structural transformation and apply the methods to China, Malaysia, and Ghana over the period 1962–2000. The results show that the rate of structural transformation is proportionately higher when a country produces more compact clusters of capital and consumer durable goods which in turn appear to lead more rapidly into new varieties of goods of higher unit values. We find that China’s transformation is the result of increasing proximity of her production/export basket to capital goods and consumer durables and the increasing values of new products in these two clusters. Malaysia’s product space in 1962 contained fewer of the world’s cluster of industrial goods than did China’s. The country nevertheless achieved a more rapid pace of transformation in the late 1980s which reduced her structural gap with China. The structure of the Ghanaian economy, however, is stagnant over time, and the country’s production profile is dominated by primary goods of low value.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/152709
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/106752
dc.languageen
dc.publisherProject MUSE
dc.rightsLimited Access
dc.sourceBadibanga, Thaddée; Diao, Xinshen; Roe, Terry; Somwaru, Agapi 2013. Measuring structural change: The case of China, Malaysia, and Ghana. The Journal of Developing Areas 47(1): 373-393
dc.subjectstructural adjustment
dc.subjecttechnological changes
dc.subjectdiscovery
dc.titleMeasuring structural change: The case of China, Malaysia, and Ghana
dc.typeJournal Article

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