Factors influencing the location of industry in Uganda

This paper attempts to give a brief description of the factors influencing the location of industry within Uganda. It should be kept , in mind that it is not the intention of this paper to evaluate the role of the common market on the distribution of industry between the three member states. Although this is a problem of great interest and significance, circumstances have prevented the present writer from working on this topic, and thus the analysis must be confined to locational factors within a single country, namely Uganda

Globalisation and the Brazilian steel industry: 1988-97

Over the course of the 1988-97 period, the Brazilian steel sector was subject to an unprecedented programme of trade liberalisation and privatisation while becoming far more open towards foreign investment and technology inflows. Using various indicators of competitive performance, it is established that the impact of this drive towards globalisation was broadly favourable. Productivity and the technological level of production processes improved while import penetration remained minimal despite the scale of trade liberalisation. However, these improvements have to be set beside the fact that the competitive performance of the sector still lagged behind that of major international producers and technological weaknesses persisted. The evolution of the sector's competitive behaviour can only be fully understood when pre-existent internal factors, as well as the externally imposed forces of globalisation are taken into account.