TY - BOOK ID - 138031692 TI - Playing to Strength : Growth Strategy for Small Agrarian Economies in Africa AU - Yusuf, Shahid. AU - Kumar, Praveen. PY - 2018 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Agribusiness KW - Agriculture KW - Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies KW - Climate Change and Agriculture KW - Common Carriers Industry KW - Construction Industry KW - Crops and Crop Management Systems KW - Food and Beverage Industry KW - Food Security KW - General Manufacturing KW - Growth Strategy KW - Hydrology KW - Industry KW - International Trade and Trade Rules KW - Landlocked KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Plastics and Rubber Industry KW - Precision Agriculture KW - Pulp and Paper Industry KW - Textiles Apparel and Leather Industry KW - Tourism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138031692 AB - With urban industrialization on the scale achieved by East Asian economies looking increasingly less plausible, small economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a growth strategy with the greatest potential for small, landlocked economies in East Africa. The paper uses Malawi, Rwanda, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these countries. The paper marshals extensive reasoning that while the manufacturing sector and exports of light labor or resource intensive manufactures could contribute a fraction of aggregate growth, it is agriculture, agribusiness, and services that will contribute the lion's share because of an unprecedented convergence of technologies. Industrialized agriculture and agri-business could enable these countries to sustain rapid growth even in the face of climate change. Malawi, Rwanda, and Uganda, with some trying, can accelerate their convergence to the technological frontier to take full advantage of this promise. Undoubtedly, there are obstacles to transferring the advanced technologies wholesale to East Africa, but their eventual assimilation is a must and the removal of hurdles needs to be addressed. Extracting the maximum growth mileage will require policy action on multiple fronts. ER -