Is African Manufacturing Skill Constrained

Author : Howard Pack
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is African Manufacturing Skill-constrained? written by Howard Pack and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continued efforts to develop high-level industrial skills in Sub-Saharan African countries may be wasteful without a more competitive environment in the industrial sector. But lack of such skills may limit the benefits to the industrial sector from future liberalization. As a result, the supply response to improved incentives may be weak.

Author : Howard Pack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is African Manufacturing Skill-Constrained? written by Howard Pack and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continued efforts to develop high-level industrial skills in Sub-Saharan African countries may be wasteful without a more competitive environment in the industrial sector. But lack of such skills may limit the benefits to the industrial sector from future liberalization. As a result, the supply response to improved incentives may be weak.Total factor productivity has been low in most of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is often said that the binding constraint on African industrial development is the inadequate supply of technologically capable workers. And many cross-country studies imply that the low level of human capital in Africa is an important source of low growth in per capita income.The results of Pack and Paxson's study do not necessarily conflict with this view. They indicate that in noncompetitive industrial sectors with little inflow of new technology, the contribution of technological abilities, however it is measured, is limited.If liberalization of the economy generated greater competition, or if export growth were accelerated - permitting the import of inputs embodying new technology - local skills could contribute significantly more in raising output.The experience of other countries also suggests that as the economy opens to flows of international knowledge - whether through technology transfers or through informal transfers from purchasers of exports - the technological capacity of local industry becomes important.The policy implications of this analysis are clear: Without the prospect of a more competitive environment, continued efforts to develop high-level industrial skills may be wasteful. But the absence of such skills may limit the benefits to the industrial sector from future liberalization, as a result of which the supply response to improved incentives may be weak.This paper - a product of Public Economics, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to analyze the effect of public policies on industrial productivity. The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].

Author : Richard S. Newfarmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198821883
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industries Without Smokestacks written by Richard S. Newfarmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Author : Hinh T. Dinh
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821389610
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light Manufacturing in Africa written by Hinh T. Dinh and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa's need for structural transformation and productive job creation, given its potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries. Based on five different analytical tools and data sources, the book examines in detail the binding constraints in each of the subsectors relevant for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): apparel, leather goods, metal products, agribusiness, and wood products. Ethiopia is used as an example, with Vietnam as a comparator and China as a benchmark, and with insights from Tanzania and Zambia used to draw out lessons more broadly for SSA. The book recommends a program of focused policies to exploit Africa's latent comparative advantage in a particular group of light manufacturing industries - especially leather goods, garments, and agricultural processing. These industries hold the prospect of initiating rapid, substantial, and potentially self-propelling waves of rising output, employment, productivity, and exports that can push countries like Ethiopia on a path of structural change of the sort recently achieved in both China and Vietnam. The timing for these initiatives is very appropriate as China's comparative advantage in these areas is diminishing due to steep cost increases associated with rising wages and non-wage labor costs, escalating land prices, and mounting regulatory costs. Five features of this book distinguish it from previous studies. First, the detailed work on light manufacturing at the subsector and product levels in five countries provide in-depth cost comparisons between Asia and Africa that can be used as a framework for future studies. Second, the book uses a wide array of quantitative and qualitative techniques to identify key constraints to enterprises and to evaluate firm performance differences across countries. Third, the findings that firm constraints vary by country, sector, and firm size led to a focused approach to identifying constraints and combining market-based measures and select government intervention to remove them. Fourth, the solution to light manufacturing problems cuts across many sectors: solving the manufacturing inputs problem requires solving specific issues in agriculture, education, and infrastructure. African countries cannot afford to wait until all the problems across sectors are resolved. Fifth, the book draws on experiences and solutions from other developing countries to inform its recommendations. This book will be very valuable to African policy makers, professional economists, and anyone interested in the economic development, industrialization, and structural transformation of developing countries.

Author : Tyler Biggs
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structural Aspects of Manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Tyler Biggs and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Discussion Paper No. 346. Assesses the findings from firm-level surveys conducted in seven countries--Burundi, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe--that covered a wide range of issues, including entrepreneurship, labor markets, technological capabilities, financial markets, infrastructure, regulation, and conflict resolution mechanisms. The paper also looks at Africa's competitive position in world markets and constraints on its exports.

Author : Ata Mazaheri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134425716
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Manufacturing Firm written by Ata Mazaheri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-02 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a useful source of greater understanding of African manufacturing firms and the perplexing lack of widespread industrial growth during the post-colonial decades.

Author : Yutaka Yoshino
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821386279
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrial Clusters and Micro and Small Enterprises in Africa written by Yutaka Yoshino and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank, in collaboration with others, recently conducted a study on Africa's domestic enterprises to improve the understanding of the constraints micro and small enterprises in Africa face in improving productivity and expanding their markets. In Africa, there are stark performance gaps between domestically owned enterprises and foreign-owned enterprises in terms of sales performance, productivity, and ability to reach distant markets. Among others, size appears to be a dominant factor in explaining the gap. Against this background, the study analyzes how naturally formed industrial clusters - concentrations of enterprises engaged in same or closely related industrial activities in specific locations - could potentially mitigate constraints Africa's micro and small enterprises face and enhance their business performance. The study is one of the first comprehensive quantitative inquiries on industrial clusters in Africa.

Author : Wim A. Naudé
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198725078
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structural Change and Industrial Development in the BRICS written by Wim A. Naudé and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the role of structural change in the economic development of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) with a consideration for the role of industry, and in particular manufacturing.

Author : John Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136698922
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Industry and Development written by John Weiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Industry and Development is a global overview of industrialisation. Each chapter will provide readers with contemporary insights into this this essential aspect of economic development. Industrialisation has been at the forefront of discussion on economic development since the earliest days of development economics. But over the last fifty years, the manufacturing sectors of different countries and regions have grown at strikingly different rates. In 1960 developing countries took a very small share of global manufacturing production. Today the position had changed radically with fast growth of manufacturing in many parts of what was originally the developing world, particularly in China and the rest of East Asia. On the other hand, countries in Africa and parts of Latin America have been largely left behind by this process of industrialisation. This volume aims to illuminate this uneven development and takes stock of the current issues that hinder and support industrialisation in low and middle income economies. This Handbook is a collection of chapters on different aspects of industrialisation experience in a range of countries. Key themes include, the role of manufacturing in growth, the nature of structural change at different stages of development, the role of manufacturing in employment creation, alternative options for trade and industrial policy, the key role of technology and technical change, and the impact of globalisation and the spread of global value chains and foreign direct investment on prospects for industrialisation. Several chapters discuss individual country experiences with examples from India, Mexico, South Africa and Tanzania, as well as an overview of African industrialisation. This authoritative Handbook will be a key reference source for those studying or wishing to understand contemporary economic development. Offering inspiration and direction for future research, this landmark volume will be of crucial importance to all development economics scholars and researchers.

Author : Esther Kokunywanisa Ishengoma
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825887988
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Firm's Resources as Determinants of Manufacturing Efficiency in Tanzania written by Esther Kokunywanisa Ishengoma and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: