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 post-1991 liberalization and privatization, and...

Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Author and Contributors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 The Potential of Light Manufacturing in Africa; Introduction; Figure 1.1 Sources of Relative Excess Production Costs, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia, 2011; Why Light Manufacturing?; Figures;...

Zambia has experienced very good GDP growth rates in the last decade, above the SSA average. Growth remains largely based on copper exports, and on the high copper price that prevailed until 2013. The country has not yet achieved structural transformation of its domestic economy, in particular...