Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Autos for Africa? : possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has grown very rapidly over the last decade. Demand for light vehicles has rapidly increased in this period, albeit from a very low base. Growing demand is almost entirely supplied by the import of used vehicles from the developed world. This has led to an enormous automotiv...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
School of Economics
2016
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613274617413632 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | McLennan, Thomas |
| author2 | Black, Anthony |
| author_browse | Black, Anthony McLennan, Thomas |
| author_facet | Black, Anthony McLennan, Thomas |
| author_sort | McLennan, Thomas |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has grown very rapidly over the last decade. Demand for light vehicles has rapidly increased in this period, albeit from a very low base. Growing demand is almost entirely supplied by the import of used vehicles from the developed world. This has led to an enormous automotive trade deficit in the region where, apart from South Africa, there is almost no domestic production. The dissertation establishes the trends and scale of automotive demand in SSA and then considers the question of whether and how the region can begin to meet this booming demand by developing its own industry. Despite limited industrialisation levels and relatively small domestic markets, some larger countries, such as Nigeria and Kenya, are putting policies in place to encourage domestic production. However, if countries follow individual national strategies it is unlikely that any will have sufficient market scale or investment levels to become sustainable automotive producers. A regional automotive strategy needs to be adopted in SSA in order to attract large scale productive investment. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/21739 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:33:31.121Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2016 |
| publishDateRange | 2016 |
| publishDateSort | 2016 |
| publisher | School of Economics |
| publisherStr | School of Economics |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/21739 Autos for Africa? : possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in Africa McLennan, Thomas Black, Anthony Economic Development Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has grown very rapidly over the last decade. Demand for light vehicles has rapidly increased in this period, albeit from a very low base. Growing demand is almost entirely supplied by the import of used vehicles from the developed world. This has led to an enormous automotive trade deficit in the region where, apart from South Africa, there is almost no domestic production. The dissertation establishes the trends and scale of automotive demand in SSA and then considers the question of whether and how the region can begin to meet this booming demand by developing its own industry. Despite limited industrialisation levels and relatively small domestic markets, some larger countries, such as Nigeria and Kenya, are putting policies in place to encourage domestic production. However, if countries follow individual national strategies it is unlikely that any will have sufficient market scale or investment levels to become sustainable automotive producers. A regional automotive strategy needs to be adopted in SSA in order to attract large scale productive investment. 2016-09-14T12:49:01Z 2016-09-14T12:49:01Z 2016 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21739 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Economic Development McLennan, Thomas Autos for Africa? : possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in Africa |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Autos for Africa? : possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in Africa |
| title_full | Autos for Africa? : possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in Africa |
| title_fullStr | Autos for Africa? : possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Autos for Africa? : possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in Africa |
| title_short | Autos for Africa? : possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in Africa |
| title_sort | autos for africa possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in africa |
| topic | Economic Development |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21739 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT mclennanthomas autosforafricapossibilitiesandpitfallsforanautomotiveindustryinafrica |