Evaluating the performance of the manufacturing industry in Yemen: reality failures and future solutions

Abstract

The manufacturing sector is considered one of the most important sectors driving economic and social growth and development due to the high added value this sector generates, the job opportunities it provides, and the forward and backward interconnections it creates with the rest of the other economic sectors, which stimulates the movement of productive investments and provides them with factors for expansion and continuity. It can also be said that the level of economic and social development of human societies is still measured by the level that these societies possess of industrial capabilities and the associated technical knowledge and ability to develop, improve, and raise levels of productive skill and quality, in addition to the accumulation that the industrial sector has achieved in terms of size. Production, its growth rates, and its share of GDP.
The values of the main indicators of the development of the manufacturing sector in Yemen during the ten years preceding the establishment of the Republic of Yemen on May 22, 1990, that is, for the period 1980 - 1990, show an acceptable record of success for an emerging sector in a country that is new to industrial development in particular and belongs to the group of least poor countries. Growth, and it is noted that this success also extended to the first five years following the establishment of the Republic of Yemen 1991-1995, although to a lesser extent than the previous period.