The extent of industrial capacity under-utilization and its impact on industrial development in Africa Least Developed Countries : issues for consideration

The existing regional and subregional institutions are: the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the Central African Mineral

51 • Tne McGraw-Hill approach is a survey-based method which estimates capacity utilization based on general questions concerning, among others, the physical volume of output;

* - the belief that, while African governments will necessarily have to play a lead role In formulating industrial policies, in building the required infrastructure and in creating

Their main finding was that some 28 different industrial mineral categories were required by the various countries to maintain their industrial productive capacity. This

There is one physician for every 26,000 people in African LDCs compared to 21,000 for developing Africa, and in the majority of cases about 60-70 per cent of physicians in Africa

economic aspects" of life. Work is going on iii the least developed African countries of Ife-li and the United Republic of Tanzania. As part Of the general activities on

tion of capital in spite of its extremely limited nature, enables us to describe the concrete forms of the international division of labour that have developed between centre

The task of this paper is, therefore, threefold: (a) to analyze the employment growth trends in adjusting and non-adjusting countries; (b) to analyze the impact of some