The Asian drivers and SSA: is there a future for export-oriented African industrialisation?

Kaplinsky, Raphael and Morris, Mike (2009). The Asian drivers and SSA: is there a future for export-oriented African industrialisation? The World Economy, 32(1) pp. 1638–1655.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2009.01253.x

Abstract

Export-oriented industrialisation is the orthodoxy and is widely indicated as a development path for sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years there has been a surge of clothing exports from a limited number of SSA economies to the US. In 2006 these exports accounted for more than half of SSA’s manufactured exports (excluding South Africa). However, the ending of quota controls on Chinese clothing exports to the US led to a significant fall in these exports. Is this a harbinger for the future of export-oriented industrialisation in SSA in a world of a level trading playing field?

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• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1467-9701
• Keywords
• export oriented industrialisation; SSA; China; clothing and textile industry; fallacy of composition
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Development
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD)
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• Raphael Kaplinsky