A Land-Locked Africa's Growth Strategy : Exports of Knowledge-Based Services
Matsuo Watanabe & Hiroyuki Hino
What the paper says
This paper argues for promoting exports of knowledge-based services, including skilled labour, in Uganda as an effective growth strategy for the land-locked Africa. For sustained growth at faster rate to be realised, the international development discourse finds a renewed interest in industrial policy, reflecting individual economies' diverse conditions in political economy and geography, among others-as opposed to the 'one-size-fits-all' prescriptions by donors in the past. Land-locked countries require a geography neutral strategy. To neutralise the disadvantages associated with its land-lockedness (i.e., high transport cost to sea), those countries may want to focus more on exporting skilled labour and ICT-related businesses, e.g. business process outsourcing, rather than on following the traditional export-oriented industrialisation in labour-intensive manufacturing.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.00 × 0.4 = 0.00 |
| M · momentum | 0.20 × 0.15 = 0.03 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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