Local pharmaceutical production in East Africa: South-South production networks and the state

In response to a dependence on imports, as well as concerns over the quality and longer-term fragility of supply of imported medicines, enhancing the local production of pharmaceuticals is now a key focus of policymakers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Key academic publications

• Rory Horner, (forthcoming) ‘A new economic geography of trade and development? Governing South-South trade, value chains and production networks”, Territory, Politics, Governance,

Additional materials

Invited lecture at Queen Mary University of London as part of their Department of Geography seminar series, 2 February 2016.

• Win-win geographies of South-South trade? India’s pharmaceuticals and local production in Sub-Saharan Africa

Invited lecture at British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi, 26 January 2016.

• Addressing health insecurity? Local pharmaceutical production in the East African Community

A blog post on the Development@Manchester blog.

• A new economic geography of trade and development?
  

This research has been featured on China’s state news agency Xinhua

• Experts decry Africa's high dependence on imported medicines