Carlos Lopes, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), often talks about Toblerone, the famous chocolate bar manufactured in Switzerland by Kraft Foods, an ...

Industrialisation has long been acknowledged as a potent driver of economic progress across countries and region. In India, for instance, the rise of manufacturing in rural areas has lifted millions ...

Reforms streamline processes without diluting safeguards, says Aboli Sunil Naravane, MD, IPICOL ...

CPPE warns against World Bank's import advice, urging Nigerian industrialisation to build a self-reliant economy and ...

Pakistan can no longer afford to delay industrialisation. Jobs, exports and fiscal health all depend on a strong manufacturing base or developing countries, industrialisation is not just a road to ...

NIGERIA’s quest for rapid industrialisation remained a pipe dream until a few years ago when the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company emerged on the scene and invested billions of naira in the local ...

Nigeria is making strenuous efforts to announce its presence in the comity of industrialised nations, but it appears that too little has been achieved despite all the commitments and investments in ...

The First Industrial Revolution in the 18th century started the modernisation process marked by profound economic, social, and cultural transformations in the world. Research shows that the process of ...

Senior Special Advisor on Industrialisation to the President of the African Development Bank, Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, has unveiled his latest book, “From Reversal of Fortune to Economic Resurgence: ...

Many developing countries are highly urbanised but lack large industrial sectors. Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye The patterns of urbanisation in the developing world in the past few decades have diverged ...

Industrialisation continues to receive an insignificant allocation from the Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA) – the amount of oil revenue that supports the government’s budget, despite being ...