Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190165 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2018/118
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia's mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic diversification. It assesses productive linkages and manufacturing competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization and post-1991 liberalization and privatization, and the adequacy of the current policy environment. Despite diminished productivity and export competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization, that era was successful in terms of domestic manufacture of mining goods. Privatization and liberalization stymied local content capabilities, retarding industrialization and economic diversification. Post-2000 policies emphasize local content development and export competitiveness. Their success, however, depends on addressing continuing weaknesses in the regulatory environment; human and technological capital; endogenous entrepreneurship; and the macroeconomic environment.
Subjects: 
industrialization
local content
linkages
productivity
mining
manufacturing
JEL: 
L5
L6
O2
O3
O4
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-560-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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