Industrial Development in Africa - Mapping Industrialization Pathways for a Leaping Leopard

Industrial Development in Africa critically synthesizes and reframes the debates on African industrial development in a capability-opportunity framework. It recasts the challenge in a broader comparative context of successive waves of catchup industrialization experiences in the European periphery, Latin America, and East Asia. Berhanu Abegaz explores the case for resource-based and factor-based industrialization in North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa by drawing on insights from the history of industrialization, development economics, political economy, and institutional economics.

Unpacking complex and diverse experiences, the chapters look at Africa at several levels: continent-wide, sub-regions on both sides of the Sahara, and present analytical case studies of 12 representative countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Cote d'Ivoire.
Industrial Development in Africa will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students studying African development, African economics, and late-stage industrialization. The book will also be of interest to policymakers.

List of contents

Introduction  Part I Industrialization and growth  1. Growth, structural transformation, and industrialization  2. Industrialization: why and how  Part II Theories of industrialization  3. Theories of industrialization  4. Late and very-late industrialization  Part III Waves of globalization and industrialization  5. Production and trade under the first unbundling  6. Production and trade under the second unbundling  Part IV Africa's postcolonial industrial experience  7. African industrial development  8. Resource-based industrializers  9. Labor-based industrializers  Part V Rethinking industrial strategy  10. New industrial policy for Africa  11. Africa's industrial future

About the author

Berhanu Abegaz is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at College of William & Mary, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Berhanu Abegaz, Abegaz Berhanu
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2018
• EAN: 9781138059719
• ISBN: 978-1-138-05971-9
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, Africa, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Developing Countries, Central / national / federal government policies, Economics of industrial organisation, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Central government policies, Industry and industrial studies, Industrialisation and industrial history, Economics of industrial organization, Global South / Developing countries, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies