Tag: Industrial policy
Why has Africa failed to industrialize?
08 Aug 16 NewsExperts call for bold and creative policies
At no point in recent history have calls for Africa to industrialize been stronger than they have been lately. Across the continent, in...
Manufacturing transformation: Comparative studies of industrial development in Africa and emerging Asia
02 Aug 16 NewsWhile it is possible for economies to grow based on abundant land or natural resources, more often structural change-the shift of resources from low-productivity to high-productivi...
SADC advances the industrialisation agenda
02 Aug 16 NewsSouthern Africa is considering a series of bold measures to advance the aspirations of member states as outlined in the Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap as the region moves t...
Board approves AfDB Group’s Industrialisation Strategy for Africa 2016-2025
26 Jul 16 NewsA road Map for scaling up Africa’s economic transformation
Africa’s industrialization agenda, one of the Bank Group’s top priorities for the continent’s economic transform...
Ghana hosts 1st ECOWAS Industrial Summit
25 Jul 16 NewsThe First Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Industrial Summit, which aims to accelerate industrialization and private sector development in West Africa, has taken ...
South Africa: Tariff policy – does it matter?
13 Jul 16 PublicationsIn recent years South Africa has increasingly turned to changes in the SACU tariffs to stimulate its economy. These changes have included both decreases in the case of inputs into ...
Tanzania Budget Speech 2016/17: “Industrial Growth for Job Creation”
09 Jun 16 NewsExtracts from the speech by the Minister for Finance and Planning, Hon. Dr. Philip I. Mpango, introducing to the National Assembly, the Estimates of Government Revenue and Expendit...
tralac in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 16-20 May 2016
01 Jun 16 EventWorkshop on trade related matters: African Trade Policy Centre
During the week of 16-20 May, the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) and partners held a week-long workshop on trade...
Clothing global value chains and sub-Saharan Africa: Global exports, regional dynamics and industrial development outcomes
01 Jun 16 NewsThis paper assesses the export-oriented clothing industry in the five main sub-Saharan African (SSA) clothing exporter countries (Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya, Lesotho and Swazilan...
Harnessing FDI for job creation and industrialisation in Africa
31 May 16 NewsDuring the last decade and a half, African economies grew at nearly double the rate of the 1990s. However, the commodity boom obscured a key weakness in African economic ...
IPAP: Moving SA towards greater industrialisation
17 May 16 NewsEarlier last week I joined the management and employees of Guestro Castings and Machining – a black-owned manufacturing company – to launch the eighth iteration of the country...
Department of Trade and Industry: Launch of the Industrial Policy Action Plan 2016/17 – 2018/19
09 May 16 NewsThe Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies says there is now an even more pressing need for structural change in the economy, to break out of commodity dependence and m...
UNECA launches Transformative Industrial Policy for Africa
05 May 16 PublicationsIn April 2016, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa launched “Transformative Industrial Policy for Africa”, a Special Report authored by University of Cambridge de...
Analysing South Africa’s 2011-15 Depreciation: Trade, Sectoral and General Economic Consequences
05 May 16 PublicationsThe South African Rand experienced an almost continual state of depreciation over the period 2011-2015, culminating in a massive risk premium shock to the currency, and an accelera...
Economic Report on Africa 2016 launched with emphasis on green, inclusive industrialization
04 Apr 16 NewsThe Economic Commission for Africa on Sunday launched its flagship Economic Report on Africa 2016 with the ECA’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Mr. Abdalla Hamdok, saying as a latec...
Transformative Industrial Policy for Africa: Put manufacturing at the centre of development
04 Apr 16 News“Countries can decide their development path. Countries become good at things because they want to excel at making those particular things,” renowned Development Economist Mr H...
African Development Week kicks off in Addis with calls for green industrialization
01 Apr 16 NewsThe inaugural African Development Week opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday March 31, with various speakers urging participants to engage in constructive debates that will pro...
Experts challenge regional governments to use pension funds for industrialisation
23 Mar 16 NewsSouthern Africa economic experts have challenged governments in the region to explore the viability of pension funds, financial services levies and sovereign wealth funds in financ...
North Africa: Combined efforts necessary to seize green industrialization opportunities
07 Mar 16 NewsThe Economic Commission for Africa (Office for North Africa) concluded, Friday 4 March 2016 in Rabat, its 31st Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE). During this four day me...
Revised RISDP: A New Growth Path for SADC’s Industrial Development?
02 Mar 16 PublicationsIn April 2015, the Extra-Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) adopted the Revised Regional Indicative Strategi...