Researcher ORCID Identifier

0009-0003-0162-7702

Graduation Year

2025

Date of Submission

4-2025

Document Type

Campus Only Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

International Relations

Second Department

Environment, Economics, and Politics (EEP)

Reader 1

Peter Uvin

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Abstract

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has long struggled to break out of economies defined by neo-colonialism and resource extractivism. The global energy transition and the buildout of electric vehicle (EV) fleets offers a unique opportunity for SSA to leverage its critical mineral reserves for industrialization. This paper seeks to buildout a working policy and economic framework to facilitate value addition in the EV supply chain. It first explores the status-quo of EV supply chain and SSA's comparative advantages. It then explores successful case study nations -Chile, Indonesia and Morocco- as models of productive industrial policy. Finally, it adapts these policies to SSA in an attempt to create institutions and frameworks that will facilitate maximal value integration and addition.

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