One potential reason for that the growth in gross value of production in the sector has not been creating proportional number of jobs as the results from the capital intensity and employment elasticities show could be because of the dependence of the sector on imported inputs in the presence of foreign currency shortage and because of electricity power disruption. [...] For instance, the food and beverages sector constituted 29% of the number of the LMM industries registered in the country, created 39% of the employment in LMM and contributed around 43% of the value added by the manufacturing industries to the national account. [...] The results further show that our sector of interest, the food and beverage sector, has had the third lowest capital intensity in the 1990s and since 2014 while the furniture producing manufacturers have the lowest capital intensity throughout most of the survey periods followed by the wood production industry. [...] The third column presents the share of the value addition of the food and beverage LMM industries to the total value addition of the LMM industry in the country. [...] Value addition and employment in the food and beverage LMM industries Year Value add of The share of the Share of the Number of Share of Share of the the food & sectorial value sectorial people female sector beverage added in value added engaged in employees, % employment LMM manufacturing in total value in the in industries at value added added sector manufacturi market price ng (in billion emplo.
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