LEADER 05504oam 22006735 450 001 9910811527603321 005 20240516134745.0 010 $a1-283-49189-3 010 $a9786613491893 010 $a0-8213-8974-2 024 7 $a10.1596/978-0-8213-8961-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160462 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000612225 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12207669 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612225 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10671289 035 $a(PQKB)10146958 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC876740 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL876740 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10538022 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL349189 035 $a(OCoLC)781785733 035 $a(The World Bank)2011045309 035 $a(US-djbf)17029367 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160462 100 $a20111031d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aLight manufacturing in Africa : $etargeted policies to enhance private investment and create jobs /$fedited by Hinh T. Dinh ... [and others] 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWashington, D.C. :$cWorld Bank,$d2012. 215 $apages cm 225 1 $aAfrica development forum 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8213-8961-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aOverview. Light manufacturing in Africa: focused policies to enhance private investment and create productive jobs -- Part I. Setting the stage -- Chapter 1. Good possibilities for light manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa -- Part II. What constraints light manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa? -- Chapter 2. Input industries -- Chapter 3. Industrial land -- Chapter 4. Finance -- Chapter 5. Trade logistics -- Chapter 6. Skills -- Chapter 7. Implementation -- Part III. Identifying the potential, easing the constraints -- Chapter 8. Ethiopia as exemplar. 330 $aThis 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 330 8 $aconstraints to enterprises and to evaluate firm performance differences across countries. Third, the findings that firm constraints vary by country, sector, and firm size led to a focused approach to identifying constraints and combining market-based measures and select government intervention to remove them. Fourth, the solution to light manufacturing problems cuts across many sectors: solving the manufacturing inputs problem requires solving specific issues in agriculture, education, and infrastructure. African countries cannot afford to wait until all the problems across sectors are resolved. Fifth, the book draws on experiences and solutions from other developing countries to inform its recommendations.This book will be very valuable to African policy makers, professional economists, and anyone interested in the economic development, industrialization, and structural transformation of developing countries. 410 0$aWorld Bank e-Library. 606 $aManufacturing industries$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan 606 $aManufacturing industries$xGovernment policy$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan 606 $aIndustrial policy$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan 607 $aAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xEconomic conditions$vCongresses 615 0$aManufacturing industries 615 0$aManufacturing industries$xGovernment policy 615 0$aIndustrial policy 676 $a338.4/7670967 701 $aDinh$b Hinh T.$f1953-$01630892 801 0$bIEN/DLC 801 1$bIEN 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811527603321 996 $aLight manufacturing in Africa$94034102 997 $aUNINA