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245 0 0 _aIndustries without smokestacks :
_bindustrialization in Africa reconsidered /
_cedited by Richard S. Newfarmer, John Page, and Finn Tarp.
264 1 _aOxford, United Kingdom :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2018.
300 _axx, 451 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aWIDER studies in development economics
500 _aA study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 _aBy 2030 more than three quarters of the world's absolute poor are projected to live in Africa. Accelerating economic growth is key to rising incomes on the continent, and central to this challenge is establishing activities that are capable of employing large numbers of unskilled workers, that can raise productivity through innovation, and that can power growth through exports. Such structural transformation is a key driver of growth, and between 1950-1996 about half of the economic catch-up by developing countries (led by East Asia) was due to rising productivity in manufacturing combined with growing agricultural output. Africa, however, has lagged behind.0In 2014, the average share of manufacturing in GDP in sub-Saharan Africa hovered around 10 per cent, unchanged from the 1970s, leading some observers to be pessimistic about Africa's potential to catch the wave of sustained rapid growth and rising incomes. Industries Without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa econsidered challenges this view. It argues that other activities sharing the characteristics of manufacturing- including tourism, ICT, and other services as well as food processing and horticulture- are beginning to play a role analogous to that played by anufacturing in East Asia. This reflects not only changes in the global organization of industries since the early era of rapid East Asian growth, but also advantages unique to Africa. These 'industries without smokestacks' offer new opportunities for Africa to grow in coming decades.
650 0 _aIndustrialization
_zAfrica.
650 0 _aManufacturing industries
_zAfrica.
650 7 _aIndustrialization.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00971825
650 7 _aManufacturing industries.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01008071
651 7 _aAfrica.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01239509
700 1 _aNewfarmer, Richard S.,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aTarp, Finn,
_d1951-
_eeditor.
700 1 _aPage, John
_c(Economist),
_eeditor.
856 _uhttps://academic.oup.com/book/12695
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_cOAB
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