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1 Mo
DIRECTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT
Private Sector Development
Industrial Clusters and Micro
and Small Enterprises in Africa
From Survival to GrowthIndustrial Clusters and Micro and
Small Enterprises in AfricaIndustrial Clusters and
Micro and Small Enterprises
in Africa
From Survival to Growth
Yutaka Yoshino, Editor
A report based on joint research by the World Bank, the Japan International Cooperation
Agency, the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, and economists
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ISBN: 978-0-8213-8627-9
eISBN: 978-0-8213-8628-6
DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8627-9
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Industrial clusters and micro and small enterprises in Africa : from survival to growth/
Yutaka Yoshino, editor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8213-8627-9 — ISBN 978-0-8213-8628-6 (electronic)
1. Industrial clusters—Africa. 2. Small business—Africa. 3. Business enterprises—Africa.
4. Industrialization—Africa. I. World Bank.
HC800.Z9D555 2010
338.8'7—dc22
2010047884
Cover photo by Yutaka Yoshino.
Cover design by Quantum Think.Contents
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Abbreviations xix
Overview 1
Performance Gaps between Domestically
Owned and Foreign-Owned Firms
in Africa 2
Industrial Clusters in Africa 5
Growth Constraints for Survival Clusters 6
Building Managerial Human Capital 8
Implications for Policies 9
Chapter 1 Introduction 11
Dualistic Structure of the Private Sector
in Africa 13
Performance Gap between Domestically Owned
and Foreign-Owned Enterprises in Africa 16
Notes 23
References 24
vvi Contents
Chapter 2 Unbundling Foreign-Domestic Performance
Gaps in Africa’s Private Sector 25
Productivity Gap 26
Market Access: Participation in Nonlocal Markets 34
Notes 38
References 39
Chapter 3 Industrial Clusters as Natural Agglomerations
of Micro and Small Enterprises: A Conceptual
Framework 41
Concept of Clusters 44
Economic Geography of Industrial Clusters 47
Beyond Transportation Costs: Market and
Government Failures, Transaction Costs,
and Industrial Clusters 49
External Linkages and Cluster Competitiveness 51
Internal Dynamics and External Linkages in
Industrial Clusters around the World 52
Role of Clusters in Micro and Small Enterprise
Development 59
Notes 61
References 62
Chapter 4 Industrial Clusters and Business Performance
of Micro and Small Enterprises in Africa 65
Clustering and Business Performance: Natural
Industrial Clusters in Light Manufacturing
Industries 68
Nontraditional, Nonmanufacturing Clusters
in Africa 82
Notes 88
References 89
Chapter 5 Location, Market Access, and Business
Performance of Cluster-Based Enterprises 91
Location Choice of Micro and Small Light
Manufacturers 92
Micro-Level Choice of Location and Business
Performance: Findings from the Arusha
Furniture Cluster Case Study 94Contents vii
Notes 100
References 100
Chapter 6 Agglomeration and Growth Challenges for
Enterprises in Survival Clusters in Africa 101
Growth Bottlenecks in Survival Clusters 103
Successful Transformation from Informal
Survival-Cluster Enterprises to
Formal Enterprises 108
Implications of Cluster Growth for Employment 109
Note 110
References 110
Chapter 7 Building Managerial Human Capital in
Africa’s Survival Industrial Clusters 113
Cluster-Based Pilot Managerial Skill Training
Programs in Kumasi and Nairobi 114
Assessing the Impacts of Training Programs 124
Implications of the Results 132
Notes 135
References 136
Chapter 8 Policy Implications: Turning Survival into Growth 139
Building Managerial Skills 140
Sound Spatial and Urbanization Policy 141
Supporting Market Expansion through
Regional Integration 143
Government Cluster Development Policies 145
Note 155
References 156
Appendix 1 Instrumental Variable Model Estimation
on Domestic Ownership Effect on Productivity 157
Reference 158
Appendix 2 Basic Characteristics of Sampled Micro
and Small Light Manufacturing Enterprises
Inside and Outside the Clusters 159
Appendix 3 Data Envelopment Analysis 163
Reference 164viii Contents
Appendix 4 Format of Managerial Skills Training Programs 165
Notes 168
References 168
Appendix 5 Average Treatment of Treated and DID
Matching Estimator 169
References 171
Appendix 6 List of Background Papers and Boxes
Contributed for the Study 173
Index 175
Boxes
2.1 World Bank Enterprise Surveys 26
2.2 Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition 32
3.1 Typology of Industrial Clusters 45
3.2 Clusters and the Environment 57
4.1 Labor Productivity of Cluster-Based Enterprises
and National Averages 69
4.2 Clusters and Gender 80
4.3 IT and IT-Enabled Services Clusters in Africa
and around the World 86
4.4 Tourism Cluster in Rwanda 87
5.1 Subclusters within the Arusha Furniture Cluster
in Tanzania 96
6.1 The Olezoa Furniture Cluster in Yaoundé 104
7.1 History of Suame Magazine 115
7.2 History of Kariobangi Light Industries 116
7.3 Challenges among Micro and Small Enterprises in
Suame Magazine 122
8.1 Interface between Government Policies to Support
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises and Strategies
to Develop Clusters in Cameroon 145
8.2
Micro, Small,ategies
to Develop Clusters in Kenya 146
8.3 Interface between Government Policies to Support
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises and Strategies
to Develop Clusters in Ghana 148