Dynamic industrial policy in Africa : economic report on Africa 2014 [electronic resource]

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"Acknowledgements: The Economic Report on Africa 2014, a joint publication of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC), was prepared under the leadership of Carlos Lopes, ECA’s Executive Secretary, and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of AUC, with the active involvement of Abdalla Hamdok, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECA, and Anthony Mothae Maruping, Commissioner for Economic Affairs, AUC. The report team benefited from the guidance and supervision of Adam Elhiraika, Director of Macroeconomic Policy Division, ECA, and René N’Guettia Kouassi, Director of the Economic Affairs Department, AUC.

The 2014 Economic Report on Africa (14th ed.) builds on the previous year’s report, which made the case for commodity-based industrialization. It calls on the continent to refocus its economic
development strategies on industrialisation, particularly on the means for formulating and implementing effective industrial policy.