Industries Without Smokestacks

Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-882188-5
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 869 g

By 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.

In 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 Reconsidered 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 manufacturing 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newfarmer, Richard

Page, John

Tarp, Finn

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Industrielle Organisation
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Richard Newfarmer, John Page, and Finn Tarp: Industries without smokestacks and structural transformation in Africa: overview

- 2: Sally Murray: New technologies create opportunities

- 3: Cláudio R. Frischtak: Telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

- 4: Jack Daly and Gary Gereffi: Tourism global value chains and Africa

- 5: Emiko Fukase and Will Martin: Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa

- 6: Heinrich C. Bofinger: Air transport in Africa: A portrait of capacity and competition in various market segments

- 7: Charles Kunaka, Gaël Raballand, and Mike Fitzmaurice: How trucking services have improved and may contribute to economic development: the case of East Africa

- 8: Bernard Hoekman: Trade in services: opening markets to create opportunities

- 9: Mulu Gebreeyesus: Implications for Ethiopia's industrialization

- 10: Nkechi S. Owoo and Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio: The agro-processing industry and its potential for structural transformation of the Ghanaian economy

- 11: Dianah Ngui Muchai and Peter Kimuyu: Prospects for information and communications technology-enabled services in Kenya: the case of the mobile money transfer industry

- 12: António S. Cruz and Fausto J. Mafambissa: Industries without smokestacks: Mozambique country case study

- 13: E. Philip English: Senegal: a service economy in need of an export boost

- 14: Haroon Bhorat, Christopher Rooney, and François Steenkamp: Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa: an overview

- 15: Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan, and Jed Silver: Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania's service sector

- 16: Kasim Ggombe and Richard Newfarmer: Rwanda: From devastation to services-first transformation

- 17: John Spray and Sebastian Wolf: Industries without smokestacks in Uganda and Rwanda

- 18: Stephen Karingi, Ottavia Pesce, and Lily Sommer: Regional opportunities in East Africa

- 19: Jaime de Melo, Mariem Nouar, and Jean-Marc Solleder: Integration along the Abuja road map: a progress report

- 20: Richard Newfarmer, John Page, and Finn Tarp: Widening the options: implications for public policy

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Newfarmer is Country Director for Rwanda and Uganda at the International Growth Centre (a joint venture of Oxford University and the London School of Economics). He a Member of the Advisory Board for the WTO Chairs Program, and consults with international organizations, including the World Bank, the OECD, and the International Trade Centre. He was the World Bank's Special Representative to the World Trade Organization, and served as a lead economist in Latin America, East Asia, and the research department. He has authored numerous articles and books on trade and foreign investment, recently co-authoring Trade in Zimbabwe, and Trade and Employment in a Fast Changing World for the OECD.

John Page is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution and a Non-resident Senior Fellow of the UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). He is also visiting professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan and a Research Associate of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. From 1980 to 2008 he was at the World Bank where his senior positions included: Director, Poverty Reduction, Director, Economic Policy, and Chief Economist, Africa. He is the author of several books and more than 100 published papers on economic development.

Finn Tarp is Director of UNU-WIDER and Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He has some 38 years of experience in academic and applied development economics research, teaching and policy analysis; and his field experience covers more than 20 years of in-country assignments in 35 countries across the developing world, including many years of work in Viet Nam. Finn Tarp has published widely in leading international academic journals alongside a series of books, and he is a member of the World Bank Chief Economist's Council of Eminent Persons. He has been awarded Vietnamese Government Medals of Honour for 'Support to the Planning and Investment System' and the 'Cause of Science and Technology'.