African Industrial Development and European Union Co-Operation : Prospects for a Reengineered Partnership.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Notations and variables used in various estimations -- PART I Contextualising industrialisation -- 1 Leveraging African-European Union co-operation for Africa's industrialisation: an introduction -- 2 Theoretical arguments for industrialisation-driven economic growth and development -- 3 The urge to industrialise African countries: which lessons can be learnt from the empirics of the process? -- 4 Integration in the global industrial economy of the African and comparator regions -- PART II Integration of industrialisation in the regional and pan-African development agenda -- 5 Integration of industrialisation in sub-regional development agendas: overviews of African Regional Economic Communities -- 6 Pan-African and multilateral schemes and Africa's industrialisation: synthesis of substance and legacy -- PART III Country case studies of integration of industrialisation in the national development agenda -- 7 Integration of the industrialisation agenda in the national development strategy: lessons from the Federal Republic of Ethiopia -- 8 Integration of the industrialisation agenda in the national development strategy: lessons from Namibia -- PART IV The industrial development agenda in the African-European Union co-operation arrangements -- 9 Industrial development in Sub-Saharan African-European Union co-operation arrangements -- 10 Union du Maghreb Arabe-European Union industrial co-operation: achievements, limitations, and way forward -- PART V Pathways to industrialisation and economic growth and development of African countries: digest of stylised facts and considerations for the formulation of the development agenda.

11 Pathways to Africa's industrialisation and economic growth and development: a digest of stylised ideas and facts -- 12 Pathways to industrialisation in Africa: key considerations and elements of a hybrid strategy -- PART VI Harnessing Africa-European Union partnership for Africa's industrialisation: policy implications and way forward -- 13 Reengineering Africa-EU partnership for industrialisation: beacons of an Integrated Industrial Development Agenda for Africa -- 14 Reengineering Africa-EU partnership for industrialisation: implications for the management of the development agenda -- Appendix 1: comparable growth of GDP and value added by economic activity, 1970-2010 -- Appendix 2: comparable structures of merchandise exports -- Appendix 3: trends in MVA as a percentage of GDP, 1991-2007, selected groups of countries -- Appendix 4: world exports by main product categories, in US million -- Index.

Of the fifty-four African states, only South Africa is categorised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) amongst industrialised countries. The economic activities in Africa are still dominated by the production and trade of agricultural and mineral commodities. This situation is in spite of the longstanding Africa-European Union (EU) co-operation, which intends, among other things, to support Africa's industrialization endeavours.

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