Kenya's Industrial Transformation Programme
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Page : 111 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Industrial policy
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Author :
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Page : 111 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Industrial policy
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Author : Peter E. Coughlin
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789966467324
Author : Carol Newman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : 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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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Industrial policy
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Author : Eric Ronge
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Industrial policy
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Author : Carol Newman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198776985
This book addresses three questions: Why is there so little industry in Africa? Does it matter? And, what can be done about it? It gives some of the results of a four year research programme by national and international researchers into what makes firms in low-income countries more competitive and what makes countries more attractive to competitive firms. The book fills an important gap in development economics and African studies. There is no other book on themarket devoted to such a comprehensive, comparative, cross-country analysis of Africa's industrialization experience. Both the policy conclusions drawn from the comparative analysis and the case studiesin their own right will be of substantial interest to readers. Policy makers in governments and international development agencies in particular will find the book useful and provocative. 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.
Author : Kenya
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Industrial policy
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Industrial location
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Preliminary report on the rural area industrial development programme in Kenya and its impact on rural development - covers regional planning strategies and rural development policy approaches, the role of small scale industry, rural area entrepreneurship, etc. Statistical tables.
Author : George Kamau
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2006
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Author : Richard S. Newfarmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198821883
A study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)