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Human Development Index (HDI) figures for East and Southern African countries reveal that social economic development has not improved during the last decade. On the contrary, many of these countries have faced a decline in their social and economic development. The quest is for an analytical framework from which actionable indicators can be extracted. It is argued that the global framework for competitiveness studies as promoted by among others the World Economic Forum is both too abstract due to its focus on the macro level, and conceptually flawed because its one-size-fits-all approach does not accommodate for the idiosyncrasies of developing countries. The aim of Round Table Africa is to dig deeper by focusing on the challenges of local industries acting within international contexts.
The single one issue development scholars do agree upon is the lack of entrepreneurship and actual investments in potentially successful value chains, in developing countries. In order to create a conducive and enabling environment for sustainable economic development, value chain analyses in a comparative, either cross-country or cross-industries, setting should generate the knowledge required to steer the economy.
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