Structural Aspects Of Manufacturing In Sub Saharan Africa
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| Author | : Tyler Biggs |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 1996-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780821338070 |
Urban Management Programme Paper No. 20. Reviews the specific actions that municipalities and city governments may take in contributing to urban poverty reduction. The paper highlights example of issues, options, and constraints that urban governments must address in fighting poverty. It focuses on municipalities and other city-level government entities as a critical institutional level of intervention. Other language editions available: French--Stock No. 13814 (ISBN 0-8213-3814-5); Spanish--Stock No. 13813 (ISBN 0-8213-3813-7).
| Author | : Richard S. Newfarmer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0198821883 |
A study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
| Author | : Kaleb G. Abreha |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2021-12-18 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1464817219 |
Industrialization drives the sustained growth in jobs and productivity that marks the developmental take-off of most developed economies. Yet, academics and policy makers have questioned the role of manufacturing in development for late industrializers, especially ith more job creation. Industrialization drives the sustained growth in jobs and productivity that marks the developmental take-off of most developed economies. Yet, academics and policy makers have questioned the role of manufacturing in development for late industrializers, especially in view of rapid advancements in technologies and restructuring of international trade.Concurrently, industrialization and structural transformation are integral to the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the development strategies of several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Given this renewed interest in industrialization across the region, a central question is not whether SSA countries should pursue industrialization as a potential path to sustainable growth but how to promote the prospects of industrialization. Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Seizing Opportunities in Global Value Chains addresses this question by reassessing the prospects for industrialization in SSA countries through integration into global value chains. It also examines the role of policy in enhancing these prospects. The main findings indicate that • SSA has not experienced premature deindustrialization; the region has witnessed substantial growth in manufacturing jobs despite a lack of improvement in the contribution of manufacturing value-added to GDP. • The region’s integration into manufacturing global value chains is reasonably high but it is dominated by exports of primary products and engagement in low-skill tasks. • Global value chain integration has led to job growth, and backward integration is associated with more job creation. The report emphasizes the role of policy in maintaining a competitive market environment, promoting productivity growth, and investing in skills development and enabling sectors such as infrastructure and finance. Policy makers can strengthen the global value chain linkages by (1) increasing the value-added content of current exports, (2) upgrading into high-skill tasks, and (3) creating comparative advantages in knowledge-intensive industries.
| Author | : Akbar Noman |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 445 |
| Release | : 2019-08-20 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0231550987 |
In recent years, concerns about the outcomes and nature of economic growth have given way to a new emphasis on its quality. This volume brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of interrelated questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa, with a primary focus on sub-Saharan countries. Contributors discuss the measurement of growth, the transformations necessary to sustain it, and issues around equity and well-being. They consider topics such as the distribution of income gains from growth; the extent to which economic growth has resulted in improvements in employment, poverty, and security; structural transformations of the economy and diversification of the sources of growth; environmental sustainability; and management of urbanization. Offering both diagnoses and prescriptions, The Quality of Growth in Africa helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into advancements in well-being. Although the book focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, much of the contributors’ incisive analysis has implications for countries outside the region.
| Author | : Carol Newman |
| Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2016-02-23 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0815728166 |
Why is there so little industry in Africa? Over the past forty years, industry has moved from the developed to the developing world, yet Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about 3 percent in 1970 to less than 2 percent in 2014. Industry is important to low-income countries. It is good for economic growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. Made in Africa: Learning to Compete in Industry outlines a new strategy to help African industry compete in global markets. This book draws on case studies and econometric and qualitative research from Africa and emerging Asia to understand what drives firm-level competitiveness in low-income countries. The results show that while traditional concerns such as infrastructure, skills, and the regulatory environment are important, they alone will not be sufficient for Africa to industrialize. The book also addresses how industrialization strategies will need to adapt to the region’s growing resource abundance.
| Author | : Hinh T. Dinh |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2012-08-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0821396331 |
This book presents empirical analyses of manufacturing firm performance in Africa based on the World Bank Enterprise Survey and on a one-time quantitative survey conducted for the World Bank by the Center for the Study of African Economies of Oxford University.
| Author | : P. Thandika Mkandawire |
| Publisher | : IDRC |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 155250204X |
Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
| Author | : Ricardo Hausmann |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2014-01-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0262317737 |
Maps capture data expressing the economic complexity of countries from Albania to Zimbabwe, offering current economic measures and as well as a guide to achieving prosperity Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a society's productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more complex products. The Atlas of Economic Complexity attempts to measure the amount of productive knowledge countries hold and how they can move to accumulate more of it by making more complex products. Through the graphical representation of the "Product Space," the authors are able to identify each country's "adjacent possible," or potential new products, making it easier to find paths to economic diversification and growth. In addition, they argue that a country's economic complexity and its position in the product space are better predictors of economic growth than many other well-known development indicators, including measures of competitiveness, governance, finance, and schooling. Using innovative visualizations, the book locates each country in the product space, provides complexity and growth potential rankings for 128 countries, and offers individual country pages with detailed information about a country's current capabilities and its diversification options. The maps and visualizations included in the Atlas can be used to find more viable paths to greater productive knowledge and prosperity.
| Author | : Deon Filmer |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2014-01-24 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 146480107X |
"The series is sponsored by the Agence Francaise de Developpement and the World Bank."
| Author | : Thomas Farole |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2014-01-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1464801266 |
This book presents the results of a groundbreaking study on ‘spillovers’ of knowledge and technology from global value-chain oriented foreign direct investment (FDI) in Sub-Saharan Africa, and discusses implications for policymakers hoping to harness the power of FDI for economic development.
