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Industrialization Strategies and Regional Actors

Helmut Asche

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West africanIndustrialisationRegional developmentEconomic policyValue (economics)Private sector developmentNormativeBusinessIndustrial policy

description

Against the backdrop of the partly normative, partly empirical policy framework, the major regional industrial policy documents of the African Union, EAC, ECOWAS, SACU and SADC are examined as to their applicability. The empirical cases of the West African dairy and textile value chains are used to discuss the difficulties of regional priority-setting. The precise roles of (a) regional financial institutions, (b) regional development aid, including the panoply of ‘private sector development’ (PSD) projects and (c) regional business associations are defined. A concise summary of the essentials of common industrial policy concludes the chapter.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2021-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75366-5_9