change in Africa. Africa's development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical …

Africa's improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from … agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth …

and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 …

-Saharan Africa. Given the importance of the state in industrial policy, this paper considers the implications for these discussions …

This paper draws on both successful and failing cases of industrialization in China to analyse the role of local …

-protected import substitution industrialization strategy of 1960-83 to an outward liberalized strategy during 1984-2000, and since 2001 …

South Africa. Given this strength, some observers suggest that the South African capital goods industry could do more to …, and tubing) would promote industrialization and enhance value-add. In practice, however, unit prices have only been …

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 … productivity and export competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization, that era was successful in terms of domestic …