Tag: Manufacturing
Mauritius National Export Strategy 2017-2021
08 May 17 NewsExecutive Summary
Mauritius’ recent journey of economic transformation has been remarkable. The business environment of the country is one of the best ranked in Africa. Sophisti...
African countries need to attract more and strategic FDI in manufacturing sector
03 May 17 DiscussionTalkmore Chidede, tralac Researcher, discusses the importance of manufacturing FDI for industrialisation and economic growth and development in Africa
According to the United Nati...
Lesotho’s textiles, apparel and footwear manufacturing industry
09 Apr 17 NewsAfrica’s inspired apparel sourcing hotspot
Employment, wages & working conditions
The combined, textile, apparel and footwear manufacturing industry remains Lesotho’s lar...
Can Africa grow its manufacturing sector and create jobs?
17 Feb 17 NewsOver the past decade and a half, Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced rapid economic growth at an average annual rate of 5.5%. But since 2008, the share of manufacturing in GDP ...
African trade and integration
04 Jan 17 Themestralac’s primary aim is to help build capacity for government officials, policymakers, and regional organisations to more adequately address the most pressing trade matters facin...
A tale of two sectors: Why is misallocation higher in services than in manufacturing?
23 Nov 16 NewsRecent empirical studies document that the level of resource misallocation in the service sector is significantly higher than in the manufacturing sector. A new IMF Working Paper q...
Manufacturing for the 21st century
09 Nov 16 NewsAt a time when the global manufacturing sector is undergoing a structural transformation, India must retool its factories for a digitally-driven future if it wants to fulfil its am...
New EAC rules of origin ‘will spur regional manufacturing industry’
03 Oct 16 NewsThe revision of rules of origin for products manufactured within the East African Community (EAC) have encouraged investment and boosted manufacturing sector within the region, the...
Global economy needs policy overhaul to move beyond sixth straight year of sluggish growth: UNCTAD report
22 Sep 16 NewsStructural transformation for inclusive and sustained growth
Getting the world economy back on track requires that global leaders use bolder macroeconomic policies, strengthened r...
Global manufacturing growth expected to remain low in 2016 amid weakened financial support, says UNIDO report
07 Sep 16 NewsWorld manufacturing growth is expected to remain low in 2016 due to weakened financial support for productive activities, according to a report released on 5 September 2016 by the ...
SA losing ground in global manufacturing stakes
11 Aug 16 NewsSouth Africa and most of its fellow Brics members – and the African continent as a whole – need to take a long, hard look at investing in cutting edge technology to catch up 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...
Push for local manufacturing to hurt East Africa integration
13 Jun 16 News
East African governments want to implement taxation measures that will see them make good their promise to promote local manufacturing and reduce importation of goods, parti...
State of South Africa’s import trade in textiles and clothing
19 May 16 PublicationsDespite increased global competition, the textile and clothing (T&C) industry is a very strategic sector for Southern Africa that has significant forward and backward linkages ...
CFTA: This African trade deal could improve lives across the whole continent
13 May 16 News
After a decade of strong economic growth at the start of the millennium, Africa now faces a less favourable external economic environment – which has led to a slowdown in the e...
The textile and clothing trade in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland (BLNS)
29 Apr 16 PublicationsOutside of South Africa there is little traditional manufacturing capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa that is able to make an impact in global export markets. Perhaps the only sector th...
Manufacturing more than doubles in sub-Saharan Africa, despite fall in share of GDP – new report
29 Apr 16 NewsManufacturing production in sub-Saharan Africa has more than doubled during the last decade, dispelling the myth the sector is in long-term decline, a new report by the Overseas De...
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...
Trade, Industry and Infrastructure in Africa: A Summary of the Paper-Trail from 2008-2015
20 Jan 16 PublicationsAlthough the idea that Africa’s next stage in development requires industrialization is decades old, the current process of linking industrialization to the continent’s trade r...
Eastern Africa’s manufacturing sector: Promoting technology, innovation, productivity and linkages
01 Dec 15 NewsThe following reports were prepared as part of a regional assessment of the manufacturing sector in Eastern Africa commissioned by the East Africa Resource Center (EARC) of the Afr...