In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development … Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …

those of Mauritius, the China-Africa economic and trade cooperation development zones, the Tanger Med Complex in Morocco and …Economic agglomeration and industrial clusters have always been part of industrialization and economic development … transformation. Industrial hubs are relatively new to Africa but continue to attract attention from policymakers and researchers …

This paper uses the data set from the fourth survey by UNIDO of manufacturing firms in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify … whether foreign direct investment affects the behaviour of local firms with respect to investment, product innovation and … perception and eality. The presence of foreign investment has not affected the behaviour of the vast majority of domestic firms …

levels of development, which contributes to the continent’s lower levels of manufacturing competitiveness. This paper derives … developed and developing countries over the 1990-2015 period. We benchmark the unit labor costs to China and estimate the impact … of relative unit labor costs on manufacturing sector value added, employment, investment and exports. We find that …

China. Using the 2000 and 2010 Censuses of Population, we apply the shift-share approach to isolate the exogenous change of …

-protected import substitution industrialization strategy of 1960-83 to an outward liberalized strategy during 1984-2000, and since 2001 …, to the private sector-led accelerated industrial development strategy based on value-added processing of Ghana's natural … development in the oil sector, energy and water subsectors and an increase in output from the mining sector, especially in salt …

The provisioning of adequate infrastructure may be seen as a key contributing factor in the industrialization process … as well as economic development across the globe. While there is a vast empirical literature assessing the impact of … industrialization in the region. …

China has experienced dramatic trade liberalization in the late 1990s. In this paper, I investigate the impact of trade …

In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development … Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …