Underscoring substantial promise yet underleveraged currently, Burundi manufacturing contributes just about 10% of GDP dominated by food processing, textiles and cement production segments employing just below 40,000 citizens (with less than 50 large enterprises formally registered thus far) indicating need for interventions targeting scale output, access enhancement and sector formalization essential enhancing socio-economic influence over next decade as the country eyes middle income status upto 2040.
However with preferential regional markets access and abundant youth workforce availability, scope for advancement stands tall across interventions targeting inputs self-sufficiency, cluster development fostering entrepreneurship and even technologies adoption improving quality, productivity and global competitiveness prospects through partnerships route encouraging transferring manufacturing excellence from Asia now needs policy priority for maximizing potential thus available catalytically as a poverty alleviation tool improving grassroot welfare over long term through skills, investments and markets access facilitation leveraging every opportunity responsibly!