while the manufacturing sector contributed only 4 per cent to GDP in 2011. The economic transformation agenda, otherwise …

than 7 per cent annually since 1992, the economy is mostly based on low-productivity agriculture. Manufacturing contributes …

resource endowments. Over the last couple of years, industry in Ghana, dominated since independence by the manufacturing … competitive manufacturing sector; how to promote agro-based industrial development to ensure value-addition to manufactures and …

performance of the manufacturing industry over the past five decades in terms of exports, production and foreign direct investment …

one of the policy priorities. This paper aims at examining the performance of the manufacturing sector, with particular … interest in identifying the emerging manufacturing subsectors, drivers of their success, and challenges for sustained … competitiveness. The paper shows that manufacturing growth over the last ten years has helped to sustain GDP growth. The growth in …

This paper uses newly available firm-level tax data to evaluate the market structure in South African manufacturing … sectors in the period 2010-12. To describe the market structure we compute markups for South African manufacturing firms and … concentration indexes for 4-digit manufacturing sectors. We find both significant markups and significant concentration across most …

change and productivity growth in manufacturing. An attribution exercise suggests that structural change and agricultural … productivity growth in manufacturing accounts for poverty reduction in developing Asia, but not in sub-Saharan Africa. …