The next frontier for African industrial policy
An overview of the imminent challenges in African industrial policy and the proposed strategies for progress.
An overview of the imminent challenges in African industrial policy and the proposed strategies for progress.
Impacts of the pandemic on the labour market and recommendations for gender-inclusive industrial policy.
Substantive progress is needed on specific sustainable industrialization indicators.
Countries can pick up their pace with policies based on reliable industrial statistics.
Advanced digitalization is becoming one of the key drivers of industrial resilience and competitiveness.
Embedding digitalization as part of the wider industrialization strategy can enable developing country firms to climb up the value chain ladder.
Big data can help detecting high-potential export products to support diversification.
Digitalization holds promise for less industrialized economies but also underlines the need for increasing efforts in developing human capital.