ABSTRACT
The context and characteristics of African countries play a major role in the kind of industrialisation policy choices their governments pursue. Tunisia, already at a political crossroads, must change its economic strategy and turn more towards Africa as opposed to Europe. Economic growth and the general transformation in Ethiopia in has been impressive. Ethiopia’s developmentalism and structural transformation agenda seem to be heavily inspired by countries such as South Korea, Japan, and China. Tourism development is based primarily on an efficient air transport sector and marketing strategy and requires a presence in key emerging markets. Tunisair, the Tunisian national airline, has barely more than a dozen destinations in Africa, only five of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. In both Ethiopia and across low-income African countries, the agricultural share of gross domestic product (GDP) has been steadily declining while the service sector’s share of GDP has been growing.
