This book presents empirical analyses of manufacturing firm performance in Africa based on the World Bank Enterprise Survey and on a one-time quantitative survey conducted for the World Bank by the Center for the Study of African Economies of Oxford University.

The growth of manufacturing industries is one of the key sectors in helping to mitigate global recessions. Productivity Growth in the Manufacturing Sector thoroughly discusses issues and potential remedies of this sector for a range of international countries.

Expertly crafted and interdisciplinary in scope, Roberta Capello’s Advanced Introduction navigates the extensive discipline of regional and urban economics. Adopting a diachronic perspective, Capello explores the evolution of various theoretical approaches and novelties, covering theories of location, regional growth, and local development, whilst explaining the many ways in which space influences economic activity.

Quantitative Tourism Industry Analysis is the first book to deal with the input-output, social accounting matrix in a way which readers from a non-economics or non-mathematical background can follow, in order to understand how useful their application would be for tourism industry analysis. It acquaints readers with useful applications of economic modelling without the unnecessary burden of higher algebra, so that they will understand concepts of the economics measurement system, Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA) methodology. Quantitative Tourism Industry Analysis offers a new set of economic tools for tourism policy analysis, ideal for those with a non-mathematical background.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.