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Light manufacturing in Africa : targeted policies to enhance private investment and create jobs / edited by Hinh T. Dinh ... [et al.]. - Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2012. - xvii, 161 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview. Light manufacturing in Africa: focused policies to enhance private investment and create productive jobs -- Part I. Setting the stage -- Chapter 1. Good possibilities for light manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa -- Part II. What constraints light manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa? -- Chapter 2. Input industries -- Chapter 3. Industrial land -- Chapter 4. Finance -- Chapter 5. Trade logistics -- Chapter 6. Skills -- Chapter 7. Implementation -- Part III. Identifying the potential, easing the constraints -- Chapter 8. Ethiopia as exemplar.

ISBN: 9780821389614 9780821389744 (electronic)

LCCN: 2011045309

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Manufacturing industries--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Manufacturing industries--Government policy--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Industrial policy--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic conditions--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: HD9737.A3572 / L54 2012