Developing countries in particular seem to have experienced high and persistent MVA growth rates since 1990, illustrating the opportunities the manufacturing sector can create. By inspecting empirical key facts, some important factors become apparent: on the one hand, there is an empirical correlation between per capita income and the degree of industrialisation in developing countries while, by contrast, high-income countries are showing a pattern of deindustrialisation (UNIDO, 2015). The nature of industrialisation provides an explanation for this pattern. Through the expansion of the manufacturing sector, surplus labour from the agricultural sector is absorbed, which increases the productivity of the entire economy due to the expansion of more productive sectors.