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Table 4--Rates of growth in nonfarm employment* by locality, Sierra Leone 1974-80
(compound annual growth rate in percent)
Activity
Locality Size
2,000 – 20,000 20,000 – 250,000 250,000 +
Repairs 15.0 5.2 15.0
radio 22.0 19.0 o
motor vehicle 17.0 2.4 20.0
watch + + 13.0
Food processing 14.0 33.0 21.0
bakers 3.4 14.0 32.0
other 39.0 o o
Woodwork 0.5 8.8 7.6
carving 0.0 o 24.0
carpentry -0.6 8.6 3.6
Clothing -0.7 1.8 5.0
tailoring 0.0 3.8 4.9
tie dyeing -3.0 -8.5 +
shoemaking -4.3 16.0 6.2
Metalwork -5.8 9.4 10.0
welding 0.0 23.0 6.6
blacksmithing -5.5 1.8 22.0
Total small manufacturing
and repair
-2.4 6.0 5.7
Source: Chuta and Liedholm (1982).
Below the broad aggregates, the details of specific rural nonfarm economies reveal
rich differences across countries and even across regions within the same country (Box 2). In
Nyanza Province of Kenya, rural manufacturing looms larger than elsewhere, primarily
because of the prevalence of home-brewing of maize beer, pombe, a pattern that repeats itself
in most African countries outside the tuber-dominated tropical zones (see, for example,
Botswana 1976; Wilcock and Chuta 1982; Fisseha 1985). Elsewhere in Kenya, as in Central
Province, where brewing is less prominent, nonfarm services become relatively more
important (Table 5). And in a classic green revolution region of Malaysia, public services,