Africa's Development Dynamics 2022
Regional Value Chains for a Sustainable Recovery
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Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons from Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, the analysis of development dynamics aims to assist African leaders in reaching the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.
The 2022 edition explores how developing regional value chains can help African countries rebound from the socio-economic shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerate productive transformation. It targets policy areas where private and public actors can support regional value chains when operationalising the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). African firms can harness digital innovations to reduce production costs, and governments can design policies for skills development, public procurement and foreign investment to strengthen industrial linkages. Two continental chapters examine related African initiatives and global trends. Five chapters tailor policy recommendations to specific value chains in each region.
Africa’s Development Dynamics feeds into a policy debate between governments, citizens, entrepreneurs and researchers. It proposes a new collaboration between countries and regions, focusing on mutual learning and the preservation of common goods. This report results from a partnership between the African Union Commission and the OECD Development Centre.
Also available in: French, Portuguese
Integrating value chains in Central Africa and the wood industry
This chapter discusses the extent to which Central Africa and its nine countries (Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo (Congo), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe) are integrated into global value chains (GVCs). It provides an overview of the sub-region’s participation in GVCs, identifying strategic products and sectors. Focus then shifts to the wood value chain on account of its potential, its size and the restrictions imposed on it as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, this chapter sets out proposals for public policies designed to drive the development of value chains in Central Africa, in particular the wood value chain, and discusses the need to improve the macroeconomic framework and the investment climate, address the lack of transport infrastructure and logistical infrastructure and develop professional skills in line with the needs of the market.
Also available in: Portuguese, French
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