تقييم قطاع الصناعة التحويلية لتحقيق القدرة التنافسية : دراسة حالتي مصر و كينيا منذ عام 2003

Abstract EN

This study aims to determine the extent of the manufacturing sector's ability to achieve competitiveness in a study of the cases of Egypt and Kenya since 2003, and the development of this industry sector - in general - and the manufacturing sector and its quality, and to achieve the greatest benefit from its outputs and use them optimally, as the economic theories that addressed the interpretation of The position of innovation and its historical cycle on its importance in pushing the locomotive of development and progress and achieving high growth rates through comprehensive, not fragmented, investment and in a more organized way for its inputs and outputs, as well as feedback for this vital and main sector and providing individuals and society with basic products that can reduce import and even have the possibility of external orientation to create competitive .

For Egypt, the study found a rise in the GDP growth rate from 3.2% in 2003 to 5.31%, as well as the percentage of manufacturing exports in merchandise exports from 30.45% in 2003 to 45.17% in 2019.

The contribution of the added value of the industry has increased Manufacturing in the GDP from 14.4% in 2003 to 16.79% in 2018.

The contribution of the added value of the manufacturing sector as a percentage in the GDP declined from 16.4% in 2003 to 14.43% in 2018.

As for Kenya, the study found a rise in the GDP growth rate from 2.93% in 2003 to 6.32% in 2018, as well as the percentage of exports of the manufacturing sector in merchandise exports from 24.08% in 2003 to 30.77% in 2019.

The contribution of manufacturing value added to the Kenyan GDP declined from 9.7% in 2003 to 7.7% in 2018.

The study recommended many recommendations, the most important of which was to strengthen the links between the different sectors in the Egyptian and Kenyan economy, especially the manufacturing sector.

It is necessary to increase and diversify the basket of exports of the manufacturing industry in the countries under study, raise its efficiency, increase the technological intensity in production, and improve productivity.

Establishing an information base to support the manufacturing sector, to provide all data and information on goods and markets, both internal and external, which leads to the availability of information on competitive foreign markets, where information represents the oil of the twenty-first century in the countries under study.