Industrialization in Kenya
Author | : Peter E. Coughlin |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789966467324 |
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Author | : Peter E. Coughlin |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789966467324 |
Author | : Eric Ronge |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Industrial policy |
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Author | : Kenya. Ministry of Industrialization. Drafting Review Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Industrial policy |
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Author | : Peter E. Coughlin |
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Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Industrial policy |
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Author | : International Labour Organization |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789221037927 |
Author | : Arthur Obel |
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Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Industrial policy |
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Author | : Carol Newman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-07-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0191082856 |
While it is possible for economies to grow based on abundant land or natural resources, more often structural change-the shift of resources from low-productivity to high-productivity sectors-is the key driver of economic growth. Structural transformation is vital for Africa. The region's much-lauded growth turnaround since 1995 has been the result of making fewer economic policy mistakes, robust commodity prices, and new discoveries of natural resources. At the same time, Africa's economic structure has changed very little. Primary commodities and natural resources still account for the bulk of the region's exports. Industry is most often the leading driver of structural transformation. Africa's experience with industrialization over the past thirty years has been disappointing. In 2010, sub-Saharan Africa's average share of manufacturing value added in GDP was ten per cent, unchanged from the 1970s. Actually, the share of medium- and high-tech goods in manufacturing production has been falling since the mid-1990s. Per capita manufactured exports are less than ten per cent of the developing country average. Consequently, Africa's industrial transformation has yet to take place. This book presents results of comparative country-based research that sought to answer a seemingly simple but puzzling question: why is there so little industry in Africa? It brings together detailed country case studies of industrial policies and industrialization outcomes in eleven countries, conducted by teams of national researchers in partnership with international experts on industrial development. It provides the reader with the most comprehensive description and analysis available to date of the contemporary industrialization experience in low-income Africa. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
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Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Industrial policy |
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Author | : Richard Newfarmer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2019-01-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0192554999 |
By 2030 more than three quarters of the world's absolute poor are projected to live in Africa. Accelerating economic growth is key to rising incomes on the continent, and central to this challenge is establishing activities that are capable of employing large numbers of unskilled workers, that can raise productivity through innovation, and that can power growth through exports. Such structural transformation is a key driver of growth, and between 1950-1996 about half of the economic catch-up by developing countries (led by East Asia) was due to rising productivity in manufacturing combined with growing agricultural output. Africa, however, has lagged behind. In 2014, the average share of manufacturing in GDP in sub-Saharan Africa hovered around 10 per cent, unchanged from the 1970s, leading some observers to be pessimistic about Africa's potential to catch the wave of sustained rapid growth and rising incomes. Industries Without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered challenges this view. It argues that other activities sharing the characteristics of manufacturing- including tourism, ICT, and other services as well as food processing and horticulture- are beginning to play a role analogous to that played by manufacturing in East Asia. This reflects not only changes in the global organization of industries since the early era of rapid East Asian growth, but also advantages unique to Africa. These 'industries without smokestacks' offer new opportunities for Africa to grow in coming decades.
Author | : Leopold P. Mureithi |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1978 |
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