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How Kenya can industrialise in a few years
Jua kali artisans at work in their sheds at Kibuye Market, Kisumu. Manufacturing companies, particularly SMEs and informal industry, are undercapitalised. PHOTO | TOM OTIENO | NMG
Manufacturing can play a crucial role in Kenya’s inclusive growth by absorbing large numbers of workers, creating jobs indirectly through forward and backward linkages to agriculture, raising exports and transforming the economy through technological innovation.
It is with this in mind that the Overseas Development Institute and the Kenya Association of Manufacturers coordinated a multi-stakeholder process to determine how the sector can create 300,000 jobs and increase the share of manufacturing in GDP to 15 per cent in five years.
