The plan to restrict importation of some food items could raise food prices.
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Ghana’s industries need fewer production constraints and more incentives to compete domestically.
Kenya Lamu Port Project.
Infrastructure that links mines to ports isn’t enough – it needs to be accompanied by policies that encourage productive investment in factories.
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Asia’s much touted low-cost, export-oriented manufacturing model increases gender discrimination.
Agriculture is still largely manual in a several parts of the continent.
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Average farm machinery use in Africa is among the lowest in the world.
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In the early decades of the 20th century, people grappled with the sounds modernity wrought. Some heard only noise. Others found great beauty.
The cost and speed of moving supplies around the world have gone up
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Business managers rethinking supply chains should consider COVID effects, the African free trade area and green industrial growth.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organisation.
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Creating employment and fighting corruption are two of the subjects discussed in the wide ranging discussion.
Coal operations at one of South Africa’s coal-fired power plants. Industrial policy needs to envisage less reliance on carbon.
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The scenarios provide plausible and possible alternatives for futures of industrialisation. They also alert decision makers to desired and undesired development pathways.
Nigeria is intent on increasing local manufacturing.
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As long as industrial policies in Nigeria are introduced only as a crisis response, import restrictions will continue to be their focus.
Aliko Dangote leaves the French Elysee presidential palace after a meeting with the president in 2016.
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Structural transformation across the Nigerian economy remains very limited.
Textile workers at the Fine Spinners clothing factory in Uganda.
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Industrialisation was key to long-term economic growth in the west and Asia. After years of going in the wrong direction, new research suggests that many African countries have seen a turnaround.
Nobel Prize Laureates in Economic Sciences Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee.
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Randomised trials in development have attracted criticiism over ethical issues and questions about being effective for policy.
Workers in an assembly line.
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A large free trade area could hinder the development of manufacturing, which countries need for economic growth.
A serval captured on a camera trap at an industrial site in South Africa.
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A high number of carnivores have been discovered at a huge industrial site in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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There is a plethora of highly troubling issues facing the global economy that are caused, in part, by globalisation.
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South Africa needs to harness its service sector into an innovative and export orientated way to push back poverty, unemployment and inequality.
Hugh Masekela performing in 2015.
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The protest song “Stimela” remains as much a song about present and future aspirations, as it is of the past.
Widnes, England, during the late 19th century.
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Researchers have found a way to measure the impact of air pollution during 19th-century England on the public’s health.
A woman walks through a market in Luanda, Angola. People who live in Africa’s cities rely heavily on the informal sector.
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Most African cities are expensive, informal and non-industrial. This has produced unique socioeconomic and environmental risks that must be carefully considered in policy development.
Interactive map of global carbon emissions from 1750 to 2010.
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An interactive map of global carbon-dioxide emissions, from 1750 to 2010, provides a better understanding of the roles of different countries in the ongoing climate crisis.