The future economic development of sub-Saharan Africa depends
crucially on improving the capabilities of private sector industry
- yet accessible information on the current levels of industrial
capability in these countries is limited and patchy. This volume on
Ethiopia is the first in a planned series that sets out to record,
industry by industry, "who makes what". Detailed industry profiles
are accompanied by full descriptions of fifty leading industrial
companies. What do they produce? How do they fit into domestic and
international supply chains? And, most importantly, where and how
did they acquire their current capabilities? Along the way, there
are some surprises. / Only two of the largest domestic private
companies began life as small manufacturers. / A huge role is
played in manufacturing by long-established trading companies that
turned to manufacturing a generation after they began importing. /
The current stock of new foreign direct investment projects could
generate as many jobs as the fifty leading companies profiled in
these pages. ****** "Africa is rightly ambitious to industrialize,
yet discussion of industrial policy has been plagued by doctrinaire
analysis resting on limited evidence. This study is grounded in
detailed evidence of firms in a specific African context. It
provides important new insights into the growth process that sweep
away common preconceptions." Paul Collier, Author of The Bottom
Billion
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