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The next manufacturing frontier to cross is sub-Saharan Africa. We are starting to see signs of it happening. For example, I just bought myself some great shoes
by BenoitEssiambre 11y ago
The next manufacturing frontier to cross is sub-Saharan Africa. We are starting to see signs of it happening. For example, I just bought myself some great shoes ( https://www.oliberte.com/men/ https://www.oliberte.com/men/ ).
Since it is the last large severely underdeveloped place with cheap, young capable labor and lots of natural resources, this might actually be manufacturing's final frontier.
- brianwawok 11y agoIs there enough political stability though? Outsider investors want some degree of stability to invest in large manufacturing plants. I am not a scholar in sub-saharan Africa, but I am not yet of the opinion that it is a stable place to set up shop.
- peteretep 11y agoAbout the same as Latin America, which is to say: in some places, yes, in some places not at all. Be happy to set up in Ghana...
- marcosdumay 11y agoSome places have, other don't. Africa is not homogeneous at all.
- jmngomes 11y ago...plus the big and traditional hurdles of corruption, and of getting customers to actually pay that longstanding invoice.
- tarikjn 11y agoOne thing that has given me pause in Africa though is the comparatively high price of food -- and energy, more obvious.