Industry Linkages, Indices of Variation and Structure of Production: an International Comparison

The structures of production of three African nations, Egypt, Morocco .and Zambia, are compared. Input-output economics is used for this purpose and two measures of variation for interindustry transactions are developed,' an index of concentration for sectoral transactions and an entropy-based measure of dispersion for interindustry transactions. The empirical results suggest that the structures of production of these countries are similar.

Structure of production, input-output, entropy,