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Natural resources, structural change, and industrial development: Local content in Zambia—a faltering experience?

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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.

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  • Wilfred C. Lombe, 2018. "Natural resources, structural change, and industrial development: Local content in Zambia—a faltering experience?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2018-118, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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