Light Manufacturing In Zambia

Author : Hinh T. Dinh
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821399354

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While Zambia's recent growth has been impressive, it has not been accompanied with adequate job creation. To be sustainable and to create productive employment for its people, growth needs to be accompanied by structural transformation. Such transformation entails a growing share of manufacturing output in the economy. Light Manufacturing in Zambia shows that Zambia has the potential to become regionally competitive in several light manufacturing subsectors by leveraging its comparative advantage in natural resource industries such as agriculture, livestock, and forestry. Light Manufacturing in Zambia has several innovative features. First, it provides in-depth cost comparisons between Zambia and four other countries in Asia and Africa at sector and product levels. Second, the book uses a wide array of quantitative and qualitative techniques to identify key constraints to enterprises and to evaluate differences in the performance of firms across countries. Third, it uses a focused approach to identify country- and industry- specific constraints. Fourth, it highlights the interconnectedness of constraints and solutions. For example, solving the manufacturing input problem requires actions in agriculture, education, and infrastructure. This book suggests directing government policies toward removing constraints in a few of the most promising light manufacturing sectors using practical and innovative solutions inspired by the fast-growing Asian economies whose starting point 20 years ago was not very different from Zambia's today. Growing production of light manufacturing goods would allow Zambia to capture more value from its raw materials and create more jobs.

Author : Hinh T. Dinh
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821399361

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This book argues that light manufacturing is appropriate for a resource-based country like Zambia. While Zambia's recent growth has been impressive, it has not been accompanied with adequate job creation. Long-term job creation in copper production is very small; links to the rest of the economy tend to be weak as well. Besides, the development of natural resources tends to discourage job-creating sectors such as manufacturing. To be sustainable and to create productive employment for its people, growth needs to be accompanied by structural transformation. Such transformation entails a growing share of manufacturing output in the economy. In the past, Zambia's efforts to promote and facilitate industrial growth have not been very successful. Policy regimes swung from one extreme to another. In the 1980s, Zambia put complete control of the industrial sector in the hands of the state. When this model proved unsuccessful, policy shifted in the opposite direction in the 1990s, and all earlier government interventions were lifted. Neither extreme led to sustained growth of manufacturing. This book suggests an alternative: directing government policies toward removing constraints in a few of the most promising light manufacturing sectors using practical and innovative solutions inspired by the fast-growing Asian economies whose starting point 20 years ago was not very different from Zambia's today. This book has several innovative features. First, it provides in-depth cost comparisons between Zambia and four other countries in Asia and Africa at sector and product levels. Second, the book uses a wide array of quantitative and qualitative techniques to identify key constraints to enterprises and to evaluate differences in the performance of firms across countries. Third, it uses a focused approach to identify country- and industry- specific constraints. It proposes market based measures and selected government intervention to ease these constraints. Fourth, it highlights the interconnectedness of constraints and solutions. For example, solving the manufacturing input problem requires actions in agriculture, education, and infrastructure. The book shows that Zambia has the potential to become regionally competitive in several light manufacturing subsectors by leveraging its comparative advantage in natural resource industries such as agriculture, livestock, and forestry. Interventions include both the provision of public goods and the removal of existing policy distortions in the economy. Growing production of light manufacturing goods would allow Zambia to capture more value from its raw materials and create more jobs.

Author : Hinh T. Dinh,Vincent Palmade,Vandana Chandra,Frances Cossar
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389614

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Light Manufacturing in Africa by Hinh T. Dinh,Vincent Palmade,Vandana Chandra,Frances Cossar Pdf

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 : Hinh T. Dinh,Celestin Monga
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464800320

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Light Manufacturing in Tanzania by Hinh T. Dinh,Celestin Monga Pdf

This book shows that feasible, low-cost, sharply focused policy initiatives aimed at enhancing private investment could launch Tanzania on a path to competitive light manufacturing.

Author : Hinh T. Dinh,Vincent Palmade,Vandana Chandra,Frances Cossar
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389744

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Light Manufacturing in Africa by Hinh T. Dinh,Vincent Palmade,Vandana Chandra,Frances Cossar Pdf

This book argues that light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa, given potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries.

Author : Imaduddin Ahmed
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030712680

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The Political Economy of Hydropower Dependant Nations by Imaduddin Ahmed Pdf

This book aims to inform better energy policy in hydropower dependent countries which are vulnerable to climate shocks. It focuses on the impact of increasing energy insecurity as global warming affects a fifth of the world population living in hydropower dependent countries facing drought. It uses Zambia as a case study. The book offers supply-side and demand-side recommendations at the national, continental, and global level and contains original data collected to highlight the impact of power outages on manufacturing firms.

Author : Hinh T. Dinh,Celestin Monga
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464800337

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Light Manufacturing in Tanzania by Hinh T. Dinh,Celestin Monga Pdf

This book shows that feasible, low-cost, sharply focused policy initiatives aimed at enhancing private investment could launch Tanzania on a path to competitive light manufacturing.

Author : Hinh T. Dinh,Thomas G. Rawski,Ali Zafar,Lihong Wang,Eleonora Mavroeidi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821399897

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Tales from the Development Frontier by Hinh T. Dinh,Thomas G. Rawski,Ali Zafar,Lihong Wang,Eleonora Mavroeidi Pdf

Tales from the Development Frontier presents analytical reviews and case studies that show how selected countries have developed light manufacturing to create jobs and foster prosperity. The focus is on China, a current powerhouse in light manufacturing, but the volume also analyzes a selection of countries in Africa and Asia.

Author : Horman Chitonge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000345612

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Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa by Horman Chitonge Pdf

Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa offers an in-depth analysis of the role industrial policy can play in the transformation of African economies. Using examples from Zambia’s industrial development experience, this book illustrates that core features of the colonial economy have not just survived six decades of independence in most African countries, but they have continued to shape the nature, scope and pace of economic activities on the continent. The book argues that since the colonial economy in Africa was not intended to serve the interests of Africans, it is imperative that the structures and the underlying rationale of the colonial economy are radically reoriented if economic activities in Africa are to benefit the majority of Africans. Drawing from the Zambian experience, the book shows that the transformation of the colonial economy in Africa is urgently needed. Whilst this has proved to be difficult over the past six decades, it can be done. The book outlines a specific type of industrial policy, Frontier Industrial Policy, as a key instrument for transforming the structure of African economies. At a time when economic growth across Africa is under considerable pressure due to COVID-19, the insights in this book will be of interest to researchers across Economics, Development, Postcolonial Studies, and African Studies.

Author : John Sutton,Gillian Langmead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1907994106

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An Enterprise Map of Zambia by John Sutton,Gillian Langmead Pdf

Over the first decade of the new millennium, Zambia's real GDP rose by 80%. Much of this rise came from the mining sector, but a substantial fraction came from the manufacturing sector, whose output rose by 50% in real terms over the decade. This volume provides a detailed account of Zambia's current industrial capabilities. From mining-related industries through general manufacturing, agribusiness and construction, it describes the structure of each of the country's major industries. It provides detailed profiles of fifty leading industrial companies that together represent the frontier of current capabilities in each area of activity. Along the way, it addresses key issues of current interest. Where did the capabilities of Zambia's leading industrial companies come from? How many of these companies came from abroad? How many had their origins in the public sector? And how many were set up by domestic trading companies that began local manufacturing operations? The copper industry generates three-quarters of Zambia's export earnings. But to what extent has Zambia developed downstream capabilities in the manufacture of copper products? How large a role is China playing in the flow of Foreign Direct Investment to Zambia? And in what industries are Chinese companies active? This is the fourth volume in John Sutton's "Enterprise Map" series, which profiles the industrial capabilities of selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Volumes on Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania have already appeared. The forthcoming fifth volume will be on Mozambique.

Author : James Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781108452991

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Stand Out of Our Light by James Williams Pdf

Argues that human freedom is threatened by systems of intelligent persuasion developed by tech giants who compete for our time and attention. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1518 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : IND:30000113799450

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Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 2005 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Budget
ISBN : UCSC:32106017025765

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Congressional Presentation, Foreign Operations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hinh T. Dinh,George R. G. Clarke
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821396339

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Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Africa by Hinh T. Dinh,George R. G. Clarke Pdf

This book presents empirical analyses of manufacturing firm performance in Africa based on the World Bank Enterprise Survey and on a one-time quantitative survey conducted for the World Bank by the Center for the Study of African Economies of Oxford University.

Author : D. Michael Shafer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501718243

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Winners and Losers by D. Michael Shafer Pdf

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