| dc.contributor.author | Ngetich, Job K. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-03-21T09:01:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-03-21T09:01:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kenya’s Experience on Industrialization, in Kinyashi, G.F., Mwang’onda, E., Mdendemi, T.R.K., Mandara, C.G., and Hauli, E., (eds.), Conference Proceedings for an International Conference on Planning and Development under the theme Towards Industrialisation in the Global South: Making Rural Regions Inclusive, held at the Institute of Rural Development Planning-Dodoma June 28-30, 2018.. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-9976-9974-0-8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.irdp.ac.tz/handle/123456789/430 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Since independence in 1963, Kenya has pursued different pathways in its industrialization agenda.
Import substitution and export orientated industrial establishment strategies were among the
pioneer industrial policies. The current industrialization strategy revolves around vision 2030
which aims at making Kenya globally competitive and prosperous country. Special attention being
given to manufacturing sector involving development of integrated iron and steel mills that will
lead to the local supply of machines and equipment. Currently Kenya’s industrialization is driven
by food processing, mining, textiles manufacture, horticulture, oil refining, and aluminum
industries, steel, lead as well as cement industries. Most of these industries are concentrated in the
urban areas including, Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Thika, and Eldoret. While, the rural parts are
dominated by cottage industries which offer socio-economic support to over 6 million people but
with no single and affirmative industrialization policy that targets participation of rural
communities. However, with discovery of oil in Turkana, Northern part of Kenya and subsequent
prospecting, Kenya‘s industrial sector’s future is bright as the oil, a source of energy is anticipated
to have a rejuvenating effect on industrialization and the national and global economy. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | IRDP | en_US |
| dc.title | Kenya’s Experience on Industrialization | en_US |
