Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa

This paper investigates the scale, causes, and timing of significant episodes of industrialization and deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares tends...

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Main Authors:	Nguimkeu, Pierre, Zeufack, Albert G.
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIALIZATION STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION DEINDUSTRIALIZATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/592701566323946678/Manufacturing-in-Structural-Change-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32317

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spelling	okr-10986-323172022-09-20T00:14:09Z Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa Nguimkeu, Pierre Zeufack, Albert G. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIALIZATION STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION DEINDUSTRIALIZATION This paper investigates the scale, causes, and timing of significant episodes of industrialization and deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares tends to occur prematurely in this region. The analysis is performed using panel data methods for fractional responses and data from a variety of sources for a panel of 41 African countries. The results overwhelmingly do not support the common finding that Sub-Saharan African countries have begun to deindustrialize. Moreover, the study documents meaningful heterogeneity across Sub-Saharan Africa subregions, with the Southern region being the only subregion to have witnessed deindustrialization. However, this deindustrialization of the Southern subregion does not appear to be occurring prematurely. The study also explores the potential role of the Dutch disease and resource curse hypotheses in understanding Sub-Saharan Africa's manufacturing experience in resource rich countries. 2019-08-22T16:52:42Z 2019-08-22T16:52:42Z 2019-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/592701566323946678/Manufacturing-in-Structural-Change-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32317 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8992 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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spellingShingle	MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIALIZATION STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION DEINDUSTRIALIZATION Nguimkeu, Pierre Zeufack, Albert G. Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa
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description	This paper investigates the scale, causes, and timing of significant episodes of industrialization and deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares tends to occur prematurely in this region. The analysis is performed using panel data methods for fractional responses and data from a variety of sources for a panel of 41 African countries. The results overwhelmingly do not support the common finding that Sub-Saharan African countries have begun to deindustrialize. Moreover, the study documents meaningful heterogeneity across Sub-Saharan Africa subregions, with the Southern region being the only subregion to have witnessed deindustrialization. However, this deindustrialization of the Southern subregion does not appear to be occurring prematurely. The study also explores the potential role of the Dutch disease and resource curse hypotheses in understanding Sub-Saharan Africa's manufacturing experience in resource rich countries.
format	Working Paper
author	Nguimkeu, Pierre Zeufack, Albert G.
author_facet	Nguimkeu, Pierre Zeufack, Albert G.
author_sort	Nguimkeu, Pierre
title	Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa
title_short	Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa
title_full	Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa
title_fullStr	Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa
title_sort	manufacturing in structural change in africa
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/592701566323946678/Manufacturing-in-Structural-Change-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32317
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Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa

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