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Africa: Lack of manufacturing will hold back growth

Africa’s failure to develop export-orientated manufacturing sectors is holding back economic development across the region. We expect that this will remain a key weakness over the long term. Even in Ethiopia, which is often seen as a manufacturing success, the sector remains very small.

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