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| Title | How Can Policy towards Manufacturing in Africa Reduce Poverty? A Review of the Current Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Studies. |
| Abstract | In this paper it is argued that policy towards manufacturing in Africa can reduce poverty if such policy focuses on the creation of high paying jobs. The paper draws on a range of cross-country firm-level evidence to show how policy can promote jobs and higher real wages. It is shown that Mauritius is a country which has achieved both these objectives. The paper places Mauritius in the context of other African countries and then asks why these countries have lagged so far behind. The paper examines the policies needed to build a linkage from manufacturing to overall economic growth with a substantial impact on poverty drawing on firm-level evidence from Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana and South Africa. |
| Date | 2003 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Pages | 22 pages |
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