{"id":4317,"date":"2019-08-02T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T08:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"its-time-we-start-capitalizing-on-our-export-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/02\/its-time-we-start-capitalizing-on-our-export-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time We Start Capitalizing On Our Export Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Sachen Gudka<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pursuing export-led industrialization puts a country in a\nsustainable socio-economic development path. This was highlighted during the\nSource 21 COMESA International Trade Fair held two weeks ago, which saw\ngovernment representatives from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern\nAfrica (COMESA) trade bloc showcase the need for opening up our markets,\ndiversifying our manufactured goods and increasing our production capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exports have played a\nleading role in rapid growth, boosting the emergence of a modern manufacturing\nsector, providing employment and reducing poverty in global economies. This is\ndemonstrated by the experiences of Taiwan and South Korea in the 1960s and\n1970s, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore in the 1970s, China in the 1980s and\nIndia in the 1990s\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/columnists\/It-s-time-we-start-capitalising-on-our-export-potential\/4259356-5219762-lf0u9h\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sachen Gudka Pursuing export-led industrialization puts a country in a sustainable socio-economic development path. This was highlighted during the Source 21 COMESA International Trade Fair held two weeks ago,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}