'. . . the main benefit of the Growth of Service Industries is that it deals with one of the key issues in the modern economy. Policymakers struggle with the pr

Manufacturing-led development has provided the traditional model for creating jobs and prosperity. But in the past three decades the conventional pattern of str

The service sector in most advanced economies accounts for up to seventy percent of employment and GDP and, given its growing importance, has received much rese

Comparison of the service sector in the USSR and abroad - maintains that the small share of the service sector in the soviet economy is due chiefly to the socia

A study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)