Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Overview: Light Manufacturing in Africa: Targeted Policies to Enhance Private Investment and Create Jobs -- Potential for Light Manufacturing: Creating Millions of Productive Jobs -- Case Study: Ethiopia -- African Competitiveness in Light Manufacturing and Possible Solutions from Asia -- References -- Part 1: Setting the Stage -- 1: Good Possibilities for Light Manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Structural Transformation -- Light Manufacturing, Including Agribusiness, as a Possible Driver of Africa's Structural Transformation -- Does Sub-Saharan Africa Have a Comparative Advantage in Light Manufacturing? -- Africa's Performance in Light Manufacturing -- Strategy for a Competitive Light Manufacturing Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Past Policy Prescriptions: An Intimidating "To Do" List -- A Selective and Practical Approach: Resolve the Most Critical Constraints in the Most Promising Subsectors -- Notes -- References -- Part 2: What Constrains Light Manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa? -- Main Constraints in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia -- Note -- References -- 2: Input Industries -- Effects of Input Costs on Competitiveness -- Why Are Input Costs Higher? -- Possible Solutions from Asia -- Policy Recommendations -- References -- 3: Industrial Land -- Effects of Industrial Land on Competitiveness -- Marketing of Goods: Land for Warehousing, Showrooms, and Trading Inputs and Outputs -- A Possible Solution from Asia -- Policy Recommendations for Africa -- Notes -- References -- 4: Finance -- Access to Finance and Firm Performance -- The Availability and Cost of Finance -- Why Is the Cost of Formal Finance So High and the Availability So Constricted? -- Possible Solutions from Asia -- Notes -- References -- 5: Trade Logistics.

Why Are Trade Logistics So Important to Competitiveness in Light Manufacturing? -- Trade Logistics Performance -- Factors Leading to Poor Trade Logistics in Africa -- Possible Solutions from Asia -- References -- 6: Skills -- Entrepreneurial Skills -- Worker Skills -- Possible Solutions from Asia -- Notes -- References -- 7: Implementation -- Competition -- Public-Private Partnerships -- High-Level Government Commitment -- The Role of Development Partners -- Governance and the Political Economy of Reforms -- Part 3: Identifying the Potential and Easing the Constraints -- 8: Ethiopia as Exemplar -- Apparel: Solving Trade Logistics Issues -- Leather Products: Dealing with Shortages of Quality Leather -- Wood Products: Providing Technical Training and Developing Sustainable Wood Plantations -- Metal Products: Reducing the Cost of Steel and Providing Technical Training -- Agribusiness: Reforming Key Agricultural Input and Output Markets and Facilitating Access to Land and Finance -- Synthesis across the Five Subsectors in Light Manufacturing -- Implementing Reform -- Political Economy Issues -- Notes -- References -- Annex: The Study's Objectives and Methods -- Industry and Country Focus -- Methodology -- Enterprise Survey Studies -- Qualitative Survey -- Quantitative Survey -- Comparative Value Chain and Feasibility Analysis -- Kaizen Training -- Note -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.