Industrialize Africa: Strategies, Policies, Institutions and Financing
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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD ...............................................................................................................................................9 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ........................................................................................................................ 11 1 Market Inefficiency ......................................................................................................................................................12 2 The Inevitability of Industrial Policies .....................................................................................................................13 3 Instruments for Sustainable Industrial Policy ....................................................................................................15 SECTION 1: INDUSTRIALISE AFRICA: HOW TO DO IT .............................................................................. 17 Chapter 1 ............................................................................................................................................ 19 Industrialisation – A Primer ............................................................................................................................................................19 1. What is Industrialization and What Role Does It Play in Economic Development? ...............................20 2. Is Industrialization Still Relevant in an Increasingly Digitized Global Economy?¨ .................................22 3. What Exactly is Industrial Policy and can a Government Avoid It? ..............................................................26 4. What are the Theoretical Foundations for Industrial Policy? .........................................................................27 5. Can “Horizontal” be Separated from “ Vertical” Industrial Policies? ..............................................................30 6. Do African Countries have the Capacity to Design and Implement Industrial Policy?.........................31 7. What Institutions can Foster African Industrialization in a World of Global Value Chains?.................33 8. How Could Development Banks Support African Industrialization? ..........................................................39 9. In Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................................................41 References ........................................................................................................................................................................44 Chapter 2 ............................................................................................................................................ 49 Inclusive and Sustainable Structural Transformation in Africa .........................................................................................50 Overview ...........................................................................................................................................................................51 1. Introduction .....................................................................................................................................................................51 2. Structural Transformation towards Manufacturing Matters ..........................................................................51 3. Africa’s Manufacturing Sector Performance Is Mixed .......................................................................................52 4. Multiple opportunities .................................................................................................................................................59 5. Some Key Bottlenecks Must Be Removed to Unleash Potential ...................................................................62 6. Bold and Innovative Policies Are Required for Successful Transformation ...............................................67 7. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................................................74 References ........................................................................................................................................................................75 3 INDUSTRIALIZE AFRICA Strategies, Policie, Institutions, and Financing Chapter 3 ............................................................................................................................................ 81 Industrial Policy in Africa: From State Leadership to the Investment Climate .............................................................81 1 Introduction .....................................................................................................................................................................89 2 State Ownership and Import Substitution (1960-1980) ..................................................................................89 3 The Triumph of the “Washington Consensus” (1980-2000) ............................................................................85 4 Consolidation and New Directions (2000 - ) ........................................................................................................90 5 Conclusions ......................................................................................................................................................................97 References ........................................................................................................................................................................98 Chapter 4 .......................................................................................................................................... 103 Africa’s Manufacturing Sector: Building Complexity .......................................................................................................... 104 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................. 104 2 Africa’s Demographic Dividend and Structural Transformation ................................................................ 104 3 Employment, Manufacturing and Increasing Complexity ........................................................................... 109 4 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................................................... 122 References ..................................................................................................................................................................... 124 Chapter 5 .......................................................................................................................................... 137 Ethiopia: Lessons from an experiment .................................................................................................................................... 138 1 Beyond boom and bust in Africa ........................................................................................................................... 138 2 Industrial policy and structural transformation in Ethiopia ........................................................................ 138 3 Policy learning and industrial policies................................................................................................................. 147 4 The challenges of structural transformation ..................................................................................................... 149 5 Conclusion: Lessons from an experiment .......................................................................................................... 152 References ..................................................................................................................................................................... 155 SECTION 2: LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCES .......................................................................................... 159 Chapter 6 .......................................................................................................................................... 161 Industrial Policy and China’s Economic Development: From the Perspective of New Structural Economics .....162 1 Economic Development Requires the Synergy of “Efficient Market” and “Facilitating State” ......... 162 2 Necessity of Industrial Policy and Analysis of the Reasons for Its Success and Failure ...................... 163 3 Five Categories of Industries in China and the Role of the Government................................................ 163 4 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................................................