The Congolese Industry Performance Facing the Breakthrough of Regional Trade in Democratic Republic of Congo

Antoine BATAMBA BALEMBU, Placide MAYIMBI KINDENGE, Pierrot-Gomez LUBENDO LELO

Abstract


This article intends to underline the complementarity, better the synergy between trade policy and industrial policy with the double optics of revitalizing the process of industrialization of the country and ensuring the influence of national industries in the sub-areas and African economic areas, in in order to better take advantage of the advantages associated with the economic integration in which the DRC is committed.

It suggests that the process of deindustrialization of the Congolese economy initiated following the disintegration of the industrial fabric following the perverse effects of Zairianization combined with the looting of sad memory of the years 1991 and 1993 as well as the material damage caused by the wars of liberation from 1997 to 2003, risk of being amplified by the breakthrough of industrial products judged to be more competitive compared to local industrial products.

Faced with the weak competitiveness of local industries having accumulated several handicaps resulting among other things from the deterioration of the business climate following an industrial policy that is both incomplete and passive combined with the inertia of national / local industries, the analysis recommends the trend reversal by the implementation of both ambitious and pragmatic reforms oriented towards the modernization of the geographical landscape combined with the improvement of institutional quality.


Keywords


Trade policy - Deindustrialization - Industrial competitiveness - Economic integration

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v30.2.4061

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