relatively few linkages between MNEs and domestic firms in sub-Saharan Africa compared with Asia. However, when linkages are … present in sub-Saharan Africa, they raise the likelihood of direct knowledge/technology transfers from MNEs to domestic firms …

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 …

China's WTO Accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local economies will …

Economic Zones (SEZs) in Africa. We document at the country level the state of current SEZ programmes and the policy measures …