Sector development requires understanding where value is created, where costs accumulate, which capabilities are missing and what prevents firms from moving into more productive activities.
By
Phyllis Wakiaga
Senior Advisor, Industry and Commerce
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Countries are not short of priority sectors. Across national development plans, governments routinely identify manufacturing, tourism, agriculture, digital services, pharmaceuticals and other industries as potential drivers of jobs, investment, exports and economic transformation.
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