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This book examines how light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa’s need for structural transformation and productive job creation, given its potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries. Based on five different analytical tools and data sources, the book examines in detail the binding constraints in each of the subsectors relevant for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): apparel, leather goods, metal products, agribusiness, and wood products. Ethiopia is used as an example, with Vietnam as a comparator and China as a benchmark, and with insights from Tanzania and Zambia used to draw out lessons more broadly for SSA. The book recommends a program of focused policies to exploit Africa’s latent comparative advantage in a particular group of light manufacturing industries – especially leather goods, garments, and agricultural processing. These industries hold the prospect of initiating rapid, substantial, and potentially self-propelling waves of rising output, employment, productivity, and exports that can push countries like Ethiopia on a path of structural change of the sort recently achieved in both China and Vietnam. The timing for these initiatives is very appropriate as China’s comparative advantage in these areas is diminishing due to steep cost increases associated with rising wages and non-wage labor costs, escalating land prices, and mounting regulatory costs. Five features of this book distinguish it from previous studies. First, the detailed work on light manufacturing at the subsector and product levels in five countries provide in-depth cost comparisons between Asia and Africa that can be used as a framework for future studies. Second, the book uses a wide array of quantitative and qualitative techniques to identify key constraints to enterprises and to evaluate firm performance differences across countries. Third, the findings that firm constraints vary by country, sector, and firm size led to a focused approach to identifying constraints and combining market-based measures and select government intervention to remove them. Fourth, the solution to light manufacturing problems cuts across many sectors: solving the manufacturing inputs problem requires solving specific issues in agriculture, education, and infrastructure. African countries cannot afford to wait until all the problems across sectors are resolved. Fifth, the book draws on experiences and solutions from other developing countries to inform its recommendations.This book will be very valuable to African policy makers, professional economists, and anyone interested in the economic development, industrialization, and structural transformation of developing countries.

Manufacturing industries --- Industrial policy --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Government policy --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Economic conditions --- Business --- Industry and state --- Africa, Black --- Africa, Subsaharan --- Africa, Tropical --- Africa South of the Sahara --- Black Africa --- Sub-Sahara Africa --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Subsahara Africa --- Subsaharan Africa --- Tropical Africa --- Economic policy --- Manufactures

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La strategie de la Banque mondiale pour l'avenir de l'Afrique reconnait l'importance centrale de l'industrialisation de l'Afrique subsaharienne et la creation d'emplois productifs pour les Africains, industrialisation et creation d'emplois qui sont de longue date la preoccupation des leaders et dirigeants politiques africains. Ce livre s'efforce de traiter ces questions. Si le recent redressement de la croissance de l'economie africaine est encourageant, pour que cette croissance soit durable, elle doit s'accompagner d'une transformation structurelle et creer des emplois productifs pour la population. Pour de nombreux pays africains, cette transformation implique le passage de nombreuses personnes actives des secteurs agricole et informel a productivite faible a des activites plus productives. L'industrie legere peut offrir une solution viable a l'Afrique subsaharienne, etant donne la competitivite potentielle de celle-ci qui repose sur la faiblesse de ses couts salariaux et sa richesse en ressources naturelles susceptibles de constituer les matieres premieres necessaires aux industries. Au moyen de cinq outils d'analyses et sources de donnees, ce livre etudie les obstacles contraignants dans chacun des cinq secteurs d'activite qu'il couvre : le vetement, les articles en cuir, les produits metalliques, les produits agroindustriels et les articles en bois. L'Ethiopie est utilisee comme exemple, le Vietnam comme pays de comparaison et la Chine comme reference, tandis que des apercus sont donnes sur la Tanzanie et la Zambie afin d'en tirer des enseignements pour l'ensemble de l'Afrique subsaharienne. Le texte recommande un programme de politiques ciblees dans le but d'exploiter l'avantage comparatif latent de l'Afrique dans certaines industries legeres, en particulier les articles en cuir, le vetement et les produits agricoles transformes.

Agri-Business --- Apparel --- Competitiveness --- French Translation --- Industrialization --- Leather Goods --- Light Manufacturing --- Metal Products --- Structural Transformation --- Wood Products

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Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Africa: An Empirical Analysis sheds light on the characteristics of formal and informal manufacturing firms in Africa by comparing these firms with firms in other regions. Drawing on two data sources, the authors find that there is a very low share of manufacturing in GDP in Africa and in African exports. Most African manufacturing firms are informal, perhaps because the enforcement of registration and licensing regulations is not strict. These firms are also smaller than firms in other regions and few export. Labor productivity is low in Africa relative

Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century. --- Exports -- Africa. --- Industrial productivity -- Africa. --- Manufacturing industries -- Africa. --- Manufacturing industries --- Industrial productivity --- Exports --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Africa --- Economic conditions --- Productivity, Industrial --- TFP (Total factor productivity) --- Total factor productivity --- Industrial efficiency --- Production (Economic theory) --- Manufactures --- Eastern Hemisphere

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