This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia's mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic … productivity and export competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization, that era was successful in terms of domestic … manufacture of mining goods. Privatization and liberalization stymied local content capabilities, retarding industrialization and …

This study examines the effects of mining productivity shocks on the formal-informal duality in manufacturing and … informality along both margins across sectors following mining shocks are heterogeneous. We also find that the lack of duality … between informal and formal firms across the development phases of mining is driven by increasing heterogeneity in …