A Land-Locked Africa's Growth Strategy: Exports of Knowledge-Based Services

Matsuo Watanabe and Hino Hiroyuki
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Matsuo Watanabe: University of Niigata Prefecture

Kobe Economic & Business Review, 2010, vol. 54, 17-39

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Uganda; Africa; service; sustained growth; industrial policy; BPO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O14 O25 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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