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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year’s Africa Industrialisation Day, marked on November 20 under a theme centering on Sustainable Industrialisation, Regional Integration and Innovation, offers Kenya a moment to reflect on how ...

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: ...

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 ...

Unleashing the potential of industrialisation and manufacturing requires allocating resources for science and technology Today nothing seems more important than having machinery in place for local ...

The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has hinged Nigeria’s industrialisation challenges on unstable electricity. Dangote said running a business abroad is 30 per cent cheaper than ...

Bangladesh is a densely populated country and generally most of the industries of this country are situated in the midst of residential area of different locality. Almost all of these industries are ...