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Research in progress.
Project last updated on: 28 May 2020.
Ethiopia is a fast-growing low-income country with an expanding manufacturing sector. A key policy objective of the government of Ethiopia is to accelerate industrialisation through the creation of several industrial parks across the country. The parks are designed to offer high-quality government services and infrastructure (including a reliable energy supply), access to a large pool of workers, and the benefits that come from agglomeration, particularly a fast and wide circulation of ideas and knowledge. However, recent work on Ethiopia has revealed high levels of worker turnover in manufacturing firms (Blattman and Dercon 2016, Abebe et al. 2016), which weaken the incentives to train workers and make it hard for firms to plan production.
In an ongoing project, Population Services International, a nonprofit global health organisation, is collecting evidence on the newly launched industrial park of Hawassa, a large-scale development which is projected to employ up to 60,000 workers once operating at full capacity. The ongoing research coupled with the newly proposed study on housing conditions in Hawassa would speak to the following important policy issues:
Project last updated on: 28 May 2020.