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 … and gas. Industry is mainly dominated by micro and small firms, privately-owned and mainly located within urban areas in …

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 …

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. …

sectors where investment has a major impact on growth of the manufacturing industry. … the world. Using AidData for 2000-13, this paper examines the effects of aid to productive sectors on manufacturing growth … of the manufacturing sector, with complementary effects from allocations to economic services and infrastructures …