Light Manufacturing in Zambia: Job Creation and Prosperity in a Resource-Based Economy

by Hinh T. Dinh and Dinh Hinh

While Zambia's recent growth has been impressive, it has not been accompanied with adequate job creation. To be sustainable and to create productive employment for its people, growth needs to be accompanied by structural transformation. Such transformation entails a growing share of manufacturing output in the economy. Light Manufacturing in Zambia shows that Zambia has the potential to become regionally competitive in several light manufacturing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821399357
• ISBN13: 9780821399354
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"