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 … 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 …

processes or buildings in the German manufacturing sector based on microdata. In particular, we shed light on the relationship …

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 … subsector, is gradually being overtaken by mining and quarrying subsector due to the discovery and subsequent production of oil …