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The practice of industrial policy : government-business coordination in Africa and East Asia

Page, John M. (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017 - First edition

This work examines how African policy makers might develop better coordination between the public and private sectors to identify the constraints to faster structural transformation, and to design, implement, and monitor policies to remove them

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Trade policy, industrialization, and development : new perspectives

Helleiner, Gerald K. (ed.) - 1992

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Manufacturing for export in the developing world : problems and possibilities

Helleiner, Gerald K. (ed.) - 1995

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Manufacturing transformation : comparative studies of industrial development in Africa and emerging Asia

Newman, Carol (ed.); Page, John M. (ed.); Rand, John (ed.); … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2016 - First edition

'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 …

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High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa : a quantile regression approach

Goedhuys, Micheline - 2009

This paper studies the growth performance of a large set of entrepreneurial firms in ten manufacturing sectors of …. The results indicate that especially firms that engage in product innovation, have their own transport means and are …