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 Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has undertaken a review of the 2026 Fiscal Policy Measures and Tariff Amendments recently approved by the Federal Government.The policy ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...