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“Flying Geese” or False Promises: Assessing the Viability of Foreign Direct Investment-Driven Industrialization in Nigeria's Shoe Manufacturing Industry

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors

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  • Aisha C. Udochi

    (Howard University)

Abstract

Less developed economies generally industrialize through a regional pattern of knowledge and technology transfer. This sequence of structural transformation is often referred to as the “flying geese theory.” Nigeria's shoe manufacturing sector provides a case study to investigate claims identifying Chinese industrialists as “leading geese.” An ethnographic survey of a private Chinese firm in Lagos and public Chinese partnership on technical vocational training in Aba support reasons to believe that skilled Nigerian shoemakers, rather than Chinese industrialists, are facilitating knowledge and technology transfer within the local economy via imu-ahia, an indigenous apprenticeship system that teaches an artisanal process to shoe cobbling in lieu of an industrial method.

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  • Aisha C. Udochi, 2022. "“Flying Geese” or False Promises: Assessing the Viability of Foreign Direct Investment-Driven Industrialization in Nigeria's Shoe Manufacturing Industry," Springer Books, in: Evelyn F. Wamboye & Bichaka Fayissa (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors, pages 577-602, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-75556-0_22
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75556-0_22
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    Keywords

    Artisanal Economy; Development Economics; Flying Geese Theory Industrialization; Knowledge Transfer; Nigeria;
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    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F43 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Economic Growth of Open Economies
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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