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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach

School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky

New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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World Bank & Agence Française de Développement

Africa Development Forum

Volume I: Light Manufacturing in Africa: Targeted Policies to Enhance Private Investment and Create Jobs [8 March 2012]

http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/0,,contentMDK:22977293~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:469372,00.html

or

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEC/Resources/LightManufacturingInAfrica-FullReport.pdf

[full-text, 184 pages]

See also-

Background Papers

Volume II: The Value Chain and Feasibility Analysis; Domestic Resource Cost Analysis
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/0,,contentMDK:22965626~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:469372,00.html

Volume III: Background Papers 
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/0,,contentMDK:22968285~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:469372,00.html

Volume IV: Kaizen for Managerial Skills Improvement in Small and Medium Enterprises 
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/0,,contentMDK:22968281~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:469372,00.html

The main report is split into three parts.

Part I: Setting the Stage
Part II: What Constrains Light Manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Part III: Identifying the Potential and Easing the Constraints

Front Matter

Foreward
Acknowledgements
Overview 

Part I. Setting the Stage

Chapter 1. Good Possibilities for Light Manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa 

Part II: What Constrains Light Manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Chapter 2. Input Industries
Chapter 3. Industrial Land
Chapter 4. Finance 
Chapter 5. Trade Logistics
Chapter 6. Skills
Chapter 7. Implementation

Part III: Identifying the Potential and Easing the Constraints

Chapter 8. Ethiopia as Exemplar 

Annex

The Study's Objectives an Methods

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