{"id":10891,"date":"2017-03-03T08:57:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T08:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/?p=10891"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:24:03","slug":"bringing-africa-into-the-manufacturing-global-value-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/china-africa-studies\/bringing-africa-into-the-manufacturing-global-value-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Africa into the manufacturing global value chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Joseph Ngwawi<\/strong><br \/>\nThis Paper seeks to unpack how SADC and the rest of Africa can seize the opportunities presented by the region\u2019s \u2013 and continent\u2019s \u2013 strategic cooperation with global partners, particularly with China. The paper argues that since natural resources \u2013 energy, minerals, and agriculture \u2013 will remain Africa\u2019s comparative advantage for the foreseeable future, the priority of any active transformation strategy should be to establish a strong, diversified resource-based economy that takes advantage of the blossoming economic ties with China.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bringing_Africa_into_the_manufacturing_global_value_chain.pdf\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Joseph Ngwawi This Paper seeks to unpack how SADC and the rest of Africa can seize the opportunities presented by the region\u2019s \u2013 and continent\u2019s \u2013 strategic cooperation with global partners, particularly with China. The paper argues that since natural resources \u2013 energy, minerals, and agriculture \u2013 will remain Africa\u2019s comparative advantage for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,65],"tags":[173,178,70,71,174,161,176,164,72,74,177,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-10891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-china-africa-studies","8":"category-papers","9":"tag-africa","10":"tag-capacity-building","11":"tag-continental-free-trade-area","12":"tag-economic-development","13":"tag-global-value-chain","14":"tag-industrialization","15":"tag-investment","16":"tag-manufacturing","17":"tag-regional-integration","18":"tag-sadc","19":"tag-technology-transfer","20":"tag-trade"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/icassa11.png?fit=274%2C103&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h5b0-2PF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10894,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891\/revisions\/10894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}