Download or read book Technology and Skills in Zimbabwe s Manufacturing written by S. Teitel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Sub-Saharan African countries are facing difficult times trying to accelerate their economic growth while at the same time attempting to liberalize their economies. For many, independence has brought political freedom without concomitant economic and social improvement for their indigenous populations. Zimbabwe fits this description and while it has made significant strides in educating its populations and distributing some agricultural land, it still lags in modernizing its manufacturing industries which survived for many years with little or no capital investment and restricted access to imports. This study, based on a detailed analysis of the results of a survey of manufacturing firms in selected industries, shows the origin of the technologies they have mastered, the use made of external and domestic sources of technology, the skills being applied, their training and other needs, as well as the policies that could favourably affect future industrial development in Zimbabwe.
Download or read book The System of Protection and Industrial Development in Zimbabwe written by Lindani B. Ndlovu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994, this volume’s seeks to evaluate the impact of trade restrictions and other forms of government intervention on the development of manufacturing industries in Zimbabwe in the 1980s. The study focuses on the period after independence in Zimbabwe up to 1989. The emphasis of the study is on (a) the extent and levels of effective protection afforded the industries by the system and (b) the efficiency of all industries created by the system of protection. This research seeks to assess the extent of protection created by managed trade and other forms of government intervention, and the resultant efficiency of manufacturing sector industries, using single period effective rate of protection (ERP) and domestic resource cost (DRC) estimates. The aim is to show the structure of incentives and efficiency implications of intervention for sample firms and the whole manufacturing sector.
Download or read book Zimbabwe written by A. S. Mlambo and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of European colonisation, mining and agriculture were the bases of the Rhodesian colonial economy and manufacturing was virtually non-existent. This study traces the origins and early development of the sector in the inter-war years and its rapid growth during the second world war and the Central African Federation years. It also analyses the fortunes of the manufacturing industry in the troubled Unilateral Declaration of Independence years when international economic sanctions and an escalation of and debilitating war of liberation threatened the sector. Finally the book examines developments in the post-colonial period up to, and including, the years of the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme of the 1990s.
Download or read book Performance of and Constraints to Zimbabwe s Manufacturing Sector in Intra COMESA Trade written by M. Tekere and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Zimbabwean Manufacturing Sector written by Pontus Braunerhjelm and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zimbabwe s Manufacturing Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Manufacturing Sector in Zimbabwe written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manufacturing in Colonial Zimbabwe 1890 1979 written by Victor Muchineripi Gwande and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key book on Zimbabwe's industrial policy and the relationship between manufacturing, the state, and economic interest groups.
Download or read book The Manufacturing Sector in Zimbabwe written by United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Regional and Country Studies Branch and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manufacturing Industry Economic Recovery and Poverty Reduction in Zimbabwe written by Tony Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade in Zimbabwe written by Richard Newfarmer and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Zimbabwe, trade has been a driver of economic growth, rising incomes, and progressive empowerment of Zimbabweans through rising standards of living and the promise of better jobs. Since 1980, through good years and bad years, increases in exports have been positively associated with increases in national income. Zimbabwe's location and resource base, together with a low-cost but relatively well educated labor force, have endowed it with a naturally high trade ratio built on a diversified base that facilitates using trade as an engine of growth. While trade volumes have rebounded smartly from the deep recession of 2007-2008, these do not offset other worrisome longer-term trends: • Export growth during the last decade has been lacklustre and failed to drive high growth. • Agricultural exports, other than tobacco, have lost their once dominant role in the region, and are no longer a source of diversification. • Manufacturing has withered in a continuing secular decline. • Zimbabwe’s export basket has become less diversified and more dependent on a narrow range of mineral and, to a lesser extent, agricultural products. In short, exports have become less diversified, less-technologically sophisticated, and less labor-intensive - and ever more dependent on a few large mining activities to provide foreign exchange and employment. This report traces the roots of this poor performance to several policy issues: poor predictability of macroeconomic policy and economic governance has created an unfavorable climate for private investment and trade; a tariff structure that dampens export profitability; industrial policies - indigenization policy in particular - that undermine investor confidence and inhibits private investment; and finally, competition-limiting policies toward services that limit connectivity of Zimbabweans and raise trade costs. The good news arising from the study is that the remedies for these policy shortcomings lie in Zimbabwean hands. If the government were to adopt reforms that reconfigure economy-wide incentives and trade and industrial policies, it could promote sustained growth, economic diversification and empowerment of poor people.
Download or read book Location of Manufacturing Industry in Zimbabwe written by Daniel S. Tevera and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manufacturing in Zimbabwe written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trouble in the Making written by Mary Hallward-Driemeier and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and globalization are threatening manufacturing’s traditional ability to deliver both productivity and jobs at a large scale for unskilled workers. Concerns about widening inequality within and across countries are raising questions about whether interventions are needed and how effective they could be. Trouble in the Making? The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development addresses three questions: - How has the global manufacturing landscape changed and why does this matter for development opportunities? - How are emerging trends in technology and globalization likely to shape the feasibility and desirability of manufacturing-led development in the future? - If low wages are going to be less important in defining competitiveness, how can less industrialized countries make the most of new opportunities that shifting technologies and globalization patterns may bring? The book examines the impacts of new technologies (i.e., the Internet of Things, 3-D printing, and advanced robotics), rising international competition, and increased servicification on manufacturing productivity and employment. The aim is to inform policy choices for countries currently producing and for those seeking to enter new manufacturing markets. Increased polarization is a risk, but the book analyzes ways to go beyond focusing on potential disruptions to position workers, firms, and locations for new opportunities. www.worldbank.org/futureofmanufacturing
Download or read book Industrialisation in Sub Saharan Africa written by Roger Riddell and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study of the Manufacturing Sector in Zimbabwe written by United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Regional and Country Studies Branch and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The System of Protection and Industrial Development in Zimbabwe written by Lindani Bornfirst Ziyapapa Ndlovu and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe was isolated from the international community when economic sanctions were imposed following UDI. The limited trade opportunities under sanctions dictated that trade be controlled. A system of control was devised based on administrative allocation of foreign exchange. Sanctions were lifted and normal trade with the rest of the world was restored when Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980. The independence government maintained foreign exchange allocation, and introduced other measures, not directly related to trade but that may have increased distortions. Economic literature predicts that these policies raise protection to domestic production and undermine the efficient performance of industries. The main objective of this thesis is to analyse the extent to which trade restrictions, managed trade and other intervention measures protected manufacturing activity and whether performance was also affected, in the context of Zimbabwe. The study outlines the development of the Zimbabwe economy and the manufacturing sector in the 1980s, comparing performance with before independence. Attention is given to structure and factor productivity in the sector. Theoretical and empirical literature on protection and economic efficiency provide a basic methodology for this study. Effective protection (along Corden and Balassa approaches) and domestic resource costs are estimated for sample firms data and form the basis of our analysis. The findings show that although there are some cases of high effective protection and inefficiency among sample firms, on the whole these are generally lower than is expected in situations where trade is controlled through the use of quantitative restrictions. A large number of sample firms are generally unprotected but efficient earners or savers of foreign exchange. We conclude that the price control regulations and wages controls, designed to reduce inflation and rent-seeking, had important influence on levels of effective protection and efficient performance of sample firms.
