Across African capitals and conference stages the phrase “value addition” has become a default near-mantra. Ministers promise industrial parks, donors fund processing lines, and trade negotiators ...

“Today it’s fashionable to talk about the New Economy, or the Information Economy, or the Knowledge Economy. But when I think about the imperatives of this market, I view today’s economy as the Value ...

These days, few miners would openly deny the role of value addition as a priority for resource-rich African economies. Yet panellists at the London Indaba clashed on whether moving down the supply ...

If Nigeria is to break the chains of commodity dependency and rise as a globally competitive industrial force, it must go beyond exporting raw hope and importing expensive solutions. It must root its ...

The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has described the growing policy emphasis and advocacy on domestic value addition as critical to Nigeria’s industrialisation if such policy is ...