One Thing Leads to Another: Promoting Industrialisation by Making the Most of the Commodity Boom in Sub-Saharan AfricaOver the past four decades, policy makers and stakeholders have struggled with the challenge of promoting industrial development in low and middle-income economies in general, and in sub-Saharan African (SSA) in particular. With the rise of the Asian Drivers (China and India) and their increase in demand for raw materials to fuel growth, the turn of the millennium saw a commodity price super-cycle emerge, benefiting a number of resource rich countries in SSA. Faced with the specter of the Resource Curse, this book examines an industrial pathway where countries can Make the Most of Commodities. Bringing together ground-breaking research in the commodity sectors, this book uses case-studies to explore conduits for industrial development, focusing on backward and forward linkages, with policy advice for both governments and corporate sectors. |
Contents
Beyond Resource Pessimism | 1 |
Blocked routes to industrial development | 12 |
One Thing Leads to Another Why Local | 21 |
A model of linkage development from | 31 |
In conclusion | 45 |
The Breadth and Depth of Linkages | 57 |
The Contextual Drivers of Linkages | 121 |
skills and the National System | 149 |
Policy development management | 167 |
Gabon | 174 |
South Africa | 180 |
Does One Thing Lead to Another and if Not | 187 |
How can policy help make one thing lead | 207 |
Might one thing lead to another? | 214 |
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activities Angola backward linkages Botswana buyers capabilities capacity Cape Town capital cent chapter China Chinese firms commodities sector commodity prices content policy copper cost countries cutting and polishing depth of linkages determinants of linkages diamond enclave exploration exports factors Figure foreign forward linkages Gabon Ghana global gold mining growth hard commodities horizontal linkages implementation important income industrial development industrialisation infrastructure innovation inputs institutions investment Kaplinsky labour lead commodity firms lead commodity producers lead firms levels linkage development linkage firms logging manufacturing minerals mining companies mining sector Mozambique National Nigeria oil and gas oil industry oil sector operations output outsourcing ownership private sector processing production programmes promote Resource Curse resource rents resource sector share skills soft commodities Sonangol Source South Africa specialised specific strategy supply chain Table Tanzania targets terms of trade tier suppliers timber transport value chain vision Zambia