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The Future of Rural Manufacturing

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The Future of Rural Manufacturing provides insights on the transformations that have occurred in manufacturing across rural regions in recent decades. It describes opportunities and challenges in this context, highlighting those relating to climate and demographic change and digitalisation, as well as shifting patterns in globalisation. With support from the European Commission, the project combines a wide range of both quantitative and qualitative analysis. The former examines broad trends in manufacturing performance across OECD rural (TL3) regions between 2000 and 2019, with deeper dives that draw on more granular microdata in 14 OECD countries. Case studies were conducted across 12 regions in Slovenia, Germany, Italy, and France. They comprised interviews with over 300 local, regional, and national actors across government, private sector, universities, research institutes, NGOs and non-profit community organisations. The project also benefited from foresight and futures workshops conducted in January and July 2022 with experts and policymakers across OECD countries.

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The manufacturing landscape of OECD rural regions

This chapter outlines the manufacturing landscape of OECD rural regions looking at trends in the manufacturing sector and the forces shaping these trends through regional data analysis spanning two decades. While many regions have experienced large falls in manufacturing employment over the last two decades, the sector remains a significant employer and supports upstream service sector jobs and jobs in other sectors. Manufacturing is also an important driver of gross value added across the OECD, yet rural manufacturing trends come in different forms across OECD countries and amongst regions, reflecting different local conditions, amenities, and areas of comparative advantage.

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