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The choice of footwear for this chapter was inspired by two considerations: first, footwear is a basic commodity purchased by both poor and rich; and secondly, it is a capital-light product that is often recommended as being an ideal industry for developing countries. The study is based on Kumasi, the main centre for footwear production in Ghana, possessing over 50 per cent of the formal sector’s footwear production capacity.
The author was a faculty member, University of Ghana, when this study was prepared; he is now with the ILO’s Southern African Team for Employment Promotion, Lusaka, Zambia.
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See George Aryee, Small-scale Manufacturing Activities: A Study of the Inter-relationships Between the Formal and the Informal Sectors in Kumasi (Geneva: ILO, 1977; mimeographed World Employment Programme research working paper: restricted).
A. K. Sen, Employment Technology and Development (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975) p. 37.
See E. Staley and R. Morse, Modern Small Industry for Developing Countries (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965) Table 7.1.
See D. K. Dutta-Roy, The Eastern Region Household Budget Survey (Accra: ISSER Legon, 1969).
The studies of the footwear industry in Ghana and in Ethiopia by McBain also showed that capital-intensive products tend to be associated with a relatively high share of skilled labour in total labour requirements; see ILO, The Employment Implications of Technological Choice and of Changes in International Trade in the Leather and Footwear Industry, Technical Report III for Second Tripartite Technical Meeting for the Leather and Footwear Industry (Geneva: ILO, 1979).
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Aryee, G.A. (1984). Income Distribution, Technology and Employment in the Footwear Industry in Ghana. In: van Ginneken, W., Baron, C. (eds) Appropriate Products, Employment and Technology. ILO Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06824-1_5
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