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It evaluates contemporary concerns that industrial opportunities for African countries are shrinking amid trade shifts, automation and digital manufacturing, low-carbon production pressures, and potential reshoring. Core evidence highlights a continuing window for manufacturing-led change centered on productivity growth, while documenting weak manufacturing value-added performance and productivity challenges tied to misallocation.","Public Disc losure Authorized  \nMARCH 2023 | No. 2  \nAFRICA ECONOMICS POLICY NOTE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ECONOMIST, AFRICA REGION  \nINDUSTRIALIZATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: SEIZING OPPORTUNITIES IN GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS  \nWoubet Kassa and Solomon Owusu  \nPub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \nThis policy note summarizes the key findings of the report−Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Seizing Opportunities in Global Value Chains1 − and implications for policy. The study assesses the central role industrialization plays in structural change and sustained and inclusive growth in Sub-Saharan Africa by leveraging opportunities in manufacturing global value chains. The study was conducted against the backdrop of contemporary discourse on the viability of industrialization as a development strategy, in the wake of claims that such opportunities may be dwindling for African2 countries due to emerging global trends in trade and GVCs, rise of labor-saving technologies such as automation, digital manufacturing, push for low carbon production, and potential reshoring in advanced economies.  \nIndustrialization has been at the center of the social and economic transformation of developed and newly developing economies, and has historically been the driving force behind structural change. For Sub-Saharan Africa, however, there are widespread concerns on whether manufacturing can play a similar role in the region’s social and economic development. Despite this narrative, industrialization features prominently in the development strategies of many SSA countries and is an integral component of Agenda 2063 of the African Union. To the extent that there is renewed interest in industrialization across the continent, and certain countries have had some success in manufacturing-driven structural change, the central question is not whether countries in SSA should pursue industrialization as a potential path to sustainable growth. Rather, the focus should be on identifying policy priorities to support country efforts in industrialization, as countries will pursue different varieties of industrialization.  \nThe case for industrialization partly rests on the fact that manufacturing has strong links and spillover effects with other key sectors such as agriculture and services. In addition, manufacturing produces tradable goods that support economies of scale and scope. The scale and quality of job growth in manufacturing, therefore, can be driven as much by the growth of exports as by the expansion of domestic demand. Manufacturing is also  \na conduit for international technology transfer and local knowledge spillovers. Seizing opportunities within international production networks and competing across value chains in local, regional, and global markets is central for the scale and speed of industrialization.  \nKEY FINDINGS AND  \nIMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY  \nThere is still a window for manufacturing driven structural change; Productivity growth is central to this drive.  \nThe evidence does not strongly support the predominant narrative that manufacturing activities in Africa have hit a maximum threshold as the main driver of economic growth, and would have only a declining role. The share of manufacturing employment stayed on a steady upward trend over the period 1970–2015 with the level of income. This trend is likely to continue and can accelerate with the right policy environment3. However, the evidence on the share of manufacturing value added does not follow the observed trend in manufacturing employment shares. The contribution of manufacturing value added to gross domestic product (GDP) remains weak, showing a flat or declining trend. The evidence for an inverted U-shaped relationship – a sign of prema-  \nture deindustrialization – weakens when high-exporting countries are excluded. 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