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free-on-board (f.o.b.) prices, 85, 90, 94, 118–19, 122 fringe benefits, China, 28–29 funding, sources of, 78–79
G GDP. See gross domestic product (GDP) German Development Bank (KfW), 137 Ghana, 24f1.2, 38 Global Development Solutions, Reston, Virginia, 145 global markets, China’s share of, 42–43 governance, 17, 110 governments commitment to support policies, 110 provision of management and technical skills, 15 role in competition, 16–17 support for light industries, 9 support for start-ups, 97, 101 gross domestic product (GDP), 49n12 and COMESA, 49–50n17 and employment, 22f 1.1 investments as share of, 1, 48n1 manufacturing as share of, 32–33 savings as share of, 82–83 share of trade in, 23 Sub-Saharan Africa, 1, 21, 32 gross domestic savings, 82–83 growth firm growth, 37, 49n11 and structural transformation, 21–25, 48n1
H herding enterprises, 6–7 Hong Kong SAR, China, 13 housing, shortages of, 70, 75n4 hydro-power, 108
I IGAD. See Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) implementation of reforms, 16–17 authority for, 74 Ethiopia, 113–14, 134–36 overview, 107–8
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import duties, 13 on apparel inputs, 119 on leather, 61 on metal products, 127 removal on inputs, 63 on steel, 62 on wheat, 60 imports, 32, 33 demand for, 39 leather products, 122 link to competitiveness, 35, 37 income, 22–23 India, 93, 103 industrialization, Sub-Saharan Africa, 32–33 industrial development, 16–17 industrial land, 67–70, 73–75, 75n3, 118 industrial parks, 12–13 China, 38, 71–75 See also plug-and-play industrial parks industrial structure, 37–39, 49nn11–13 industry, and economic structure, 24f 1.2 informal sector, and productivity, 38–39, 49n12 information, 98, 99 infrastructure constraints of, 68 deficits in, 89 development of, 90 investments in, 69, 74 innovation, 78, 79t4.3, 98 input industries, 40, 58, 59, 118, 119 agribusiness, 7, 59–60 agriculture, 64, 128, 129 costs of, 55, 59–62, 86 Ethiopia, 6–7, 13 impact of input costs on competitiveness, 57–59 and land issues, 69–70 leather products, 6–7, 59, 60–61 link to competition, 13 and marketing of goods, 70–71 overview, 57 policy issues and recommendations for, 8, 63–65