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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: RVtitem on July 12, 2016, 10:42:29 AM
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Kenya as a country has been de-industrialized. Most of the industries that Kenya inherited from the colonialists after independence, especially in the service sector and commercial sector, have been very much de-industrialized. For example, a more uninstitutionalized form of marketing such as hawking is being adopted to by the citizens instead of a more institutionalized form of marketing such as co-operate marketing. But this may have come up as result of the de-industrialization of co-operate marketing institutions that used to exist by those who are in-charge of the country. In the transportation sector,matatuis being preferred to organized transport companies. When it comes to services in what is supposed to be the transportation industry, touting is being preferred to bus-conducting. In agriculture, plantations are being reduced to small peasantry plots managed on a subsistence level. Services in that it is supposed to be agricultural industry has been de-industrialized too: waged farm-workmanship has been replaced by peasantry. So if today’ goal of modernization is for a country to move from being uninstitutionalized and dependent on the subsistence mode of production for survival to being more and more institutionalized and dependent on an industrialized mode of production for survival as we saw earlier on, Kenya is doing the opposite. In Kenya, modernization is mainly the de-industrialization and the general de-institutionalization of the country. In that case instead of the process of development taking place, underdevelopment is being encouraged even where it could have been avoided such as in the national organization of public transport industry and marketing
https://lukke7.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/kenyas-de-industrialisation-since-independence/
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I think the word is de-formalizing. Informal sector indeed is very big. This can be a good thing if they are made to slowly move into SME. There is a lot of formalization happening in some sectors..chiefly retails sector...where supermarkets and malls...are replacing the dukawallas.
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Over the past 15 years, the economy of sub- Saharan Africa has more than doubled in size, growing at a rate of roughly 5 percent a year, and fueling the widely adopted narrative that the world’s most underdeveloped continent is finally “rising.” The bulk of this growth, however, has been driven by years of high commodity prices, as well as the expansion of services like banking, construction, hospitality and telecommunications. Unlike the high-growth Asian economies of recent decades, which achieved high standards of living by shifting labor en masse from low-productivity agriculture to higher-productivity jobs in factories, Africa, by some measures, has actually deindustrialized. Between 1975 and 2014, the share of manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP fell from 18 percent to 11 percent. Today, the continent as a whole is responsible for less than 1 percent of global
manufacturing exports.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/19057/made-in-africa-will-ethiopia-s-push-for-industrialization-pay-off
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Ethiopia has got most vital aspects almost in place: cheap labor, energy, and transport infrastructure.
It also got a sizeable well educated diaspora that will fill gap, just like Chinese migration from western countries back to china when government offered inducements.
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Precisely.
Ethiopia has got most vital aspects almost in place: cheap labor, energy, and transport infrastructure.
It also got a sizeable well educated diaspora that will fill gap, just like Chinese migration from western countries back to china when government offered inducements.