Sectorsimproving
Sectorsimproving is a conceptual term used to describe systematic efforts to raise productivity, innovation, and sustainability across economic sectors within an economy or organization. It encompasses diagnostic assessment, policy design, investment, and ongoing performance monitoring, with the aim of increasing value-added, employment quality, and resilience.
- Policy design and regulatory environment that reduce unnecessary frictions and enable competition and experimentation
- Investment in physical and human capital, including infrastructure, schooling, and vocational training
- Technology, innovation, and digital adoption to raise process efficiency and new product development
- Market access, supply chains, and trade logistics to strengthen sector linkages
- Sustainability and decarbonization, efficiency gains, and resource stewardship
- Governance, data collection, and performance benchmarking to guide decision-making
- Targeted incentives, subsidies, and tax policies aligned with clear criteria
- Public-private partnerships and coordinated sector plans
- Standards, testing, and certification to raise quality and trust
- Pilot programs followed by scaling successful approaches
- Skill development and workforce upgrading programs
- Infrastructure investments and regulatory reforms that lower transaction costs
- Indicators include sector-level productivity (TFP), output and employment growth, capital stock, and investment
- Adoption of new technologies, digital tools, and process innovations
- Energy and emissions intensity, resource use, and other sustainability metrics
- Export performance and value-chain integration
While not a conventional field with a single canonical definition, sectorsimproving overlaps with industrial policy, sectoral
See also industrial policy, productivity, value-chain analysis, economic development.