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The Technological Response to Import Liberalization in SubSaharan Africa

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  1. Sanjaya Lall

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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Many African countries liberalized in the belief that international competition would stimulate efficiency, growth and technological dynamism. The results are mixed, but largely disappointing. This book examines why, looking at technological reactions to liberalization in garments and engineering in Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe, countries with different levels of industrialisation and differing degrees of liberalization. Its findings, aimed at practitioners and researchers, explain why the assumptions underlying liberalisation are often flawed, why capabilities differ, and why they lag behind other regions.

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction and Setting

    • Sanjaya Lall
    Pages 1-25

  3. Import Liberalization and Industrial Performance: Theory and Evidence

    • Sanjaya Lall, Wolfram W. Latsch
    Pages 26-56

  4. Adjustment, Technological Capabilities and Enterprise Dynamics in Kenya

    • Ganeshan Wignaraja, Gerrishon Ikiara
    Pages 57-111

  5. Trade Liberalization, Firm Performance and Technology Upgrading in Tanzania

    • Sonali Deraniyagala, Haji H. H. Semboja
    Pages 112-147

  6. Technology and the Responses of Firms to Adjustment in Zimbabwe

    • Wolfram W. Latsch, Peter B. Robinson
    Pages 148-206

  7. Comparative and Pooled Analysis of the Three Countries

    • Sonali Deraniyagala
    Pages 207-224

  8. Opening Up — and Shutting Down? Synthesis, Policies and Conclusions

    • Sanjaya Lall
    Pages 225-273

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 274-291
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Oxford, UK

    Sanjaya Lall

About the editor

SONALI DERANIYAGALA Lecturer in Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London GERRISHON IKIARA Senior Lecturer, Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya WOLFRAM LATSCH doctoral student in economics, Wolfson College, Oxford PETER ROBINSON runs an economic consultancy, Zimconsult, Harare, Zimbabwe HAJI SEMBOJA Senior Research Fellow, Economic and Social Research Foundation, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania GANESHAN WIGNARAJA Chief Programme Officer, Export and Industrial Development Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, London

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Technological Response to Import Liberalization in SubSaharan Africa

  • Editors: Sanjaya Lall

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14852-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The United Nations University 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-14852-3Published: 24 February 1999

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 291

  • Topics: Development Economics

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