Title Made in Africa Learning to Compete in Industry / Carol Newman, John Page, John Rand, Abebe Shemeles, Måns Söderbom, Finn Tarp

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Description 1 online resource Contents Why industry matters for Africa -- Why industry matters for Africa -- Realities and opportunities -- Industrialization efforts and outcomes -- Can Africa break in? -- Learning to compete -- Productivity, exports and competition -- Firm capabilities -- Industrial clusters -- How Africa can industrialize -- A strategy for industrial development -- Dealing with resource abundance -- An agenda for aid -- Afterword: leopards and laggards Summary Why is there so little industry in Africa?Over the past forty years, industry and business interests have moved increasingly 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 Africa gets its fair share of the global market. Here, case studies and econometric and qualitative research from Africa, as well as emerging Asia, help the reader understand what drives firm-level competitiveness in low-income countries Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Investments, Foreign -- Africa Economic development -- Africa -- International cooperation Industrial policy -- Africa Industrialization -- Africa Economic development -- International cooperation. Economic history. Industrial policy. Industrialization. Investments, Foreign. SUBJECT Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001552 Subject Africa. Form Electronic book Author Page, John author Rand, John author Shemeles, Abebe author Söderbom, Måns author Tarp, Finn author ISBN 9780815728153 0815728158

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