This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia's mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic … diversification. It assesses productive linkages and manufacturing competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization and … manufacture of mining goods. Privatization and liberalization stymied local content capabilities, retarding industrialization and …

This study examines the effects of mining productivity shocks on the formal-informal duality in manufacturing and … informality along both margins across sectors following mining shocks are heterogeneous. We also find that the lack of duality … between informal and formal firms across the development phases of mining is driven by increasing heterogeneity in …

resource endowments. Over the last couple of years, industry in Ghana, dominated since independence by the manufacturing …This paper chronicles the evolution of industry in Ghana over the post-independence era from an inward over … subsector, is gradually being overtaken by mining and quarrying subsector due to the discovery and subsequent production of oil …

effects on manufacturing industry that were envisaged to flow from trade policy reforms, including effects on mark …This paper provides a retrospective assessment of the effects of trade policies on South African manufacturing since …

performances of manufacturing firms in South Africa, and whether firms investing in capabilities development are more resilient to …

, we argue that foreign direct investment can stimulate export upgrading in manufacturing firms. We find that the level of …

manufacturing, tradables, and non-tradables) rather than by a recomposition of value added towards those with low labour shares. It … manufacturing labour share all played a large role in the reduction of the manufacturing wage share in Mexico. More generally, the …

informality as a continuum consisting of four degrees. The quantitative data includes 516 manufacturing enterprises which are …

picture of the manufacturing sector. However, it is not obvious whether this is true for the population of manufacturing firms … 2017 by considering other indicators of the health of the manufacturing sector in Mozambique, including manufacturing gross … domestic product, the latest enterprise census, and satellite imagery. Results indicate that the manufacturing sector grows at …