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The Quality of Growth in Africa

Autor Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Ravi Kanbur
en Hardback – 30 aug 2019
Bringing together prominent international contributors to consider a range of questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa, this text offers both diagnoses and prescriptions, and helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into improvements in well-being.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231194761
ISBN-10: 0231194765
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 162 x 234 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press

Notă biografică

Edited by Ravi Kanbur, Akbar Noman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Quality of Growth in Africa: An Overview, by Ravi Kanbur, Akbar Noman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Part I. Gross Domestic Product, Equity, and Employment
1. Beyond GDP: Measuring the Quality of Growth in Africa, by Lorenzo Fioramonti
2. Recent African Growth Experience: Poverty, Equity, and Political Stability, by Andy McKay
3. The Quality of Jobs and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Moazam Mahmood
Part II. Structural Transformation for Quality Growth
4. New Global Rules, Policy Space, and Quality of Growth in Africa, by Antonio Andreoni, Ha-Joon Chang, and Isabel Estevez
5. What Should Africa Learn from East Asian Development?, by Jomo Kwame Sundaram
6. Economic Transformation for High-Quality Growth: Insights from International Cooperation, by Akio Hosono
Part III. Economic Transformation: Industrializing Agriculture, Complexity, and Global Value Chains
7. Oranges Are Not Only Fruit: The Industrialization of Freshness and the Quality of Growth, by Christopher Cramer and John Sender
8. Sub-Saharan Africäs Manufacturing Sector: Building Complexity, by Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur, Christopher Rooney, and François Steenkamp
9. A Generalized Linkage Approach to Local Production Systems Development in the Era of Global Value Chains, with Special Reference to Africa, by Antonio Andreoni
10. (Re)shaping Markets for Inclusive Economic Activity: Competition and Industrial Policies Relating to Food Production in Southern Africa, by Simon Roberts
Part IV. Environment
11. Climate Change and the Quality of Growth in Africa, by Ben Orlove
12. Does Environmental Policy Make African Industry Less Competitive? The Possibilities in Green Industrial Policy, by Go Shimada
Part V. Urbanization
13. Urbanization and the Quality of Growth in Africa, by Takyiwaa Manuh and Edlam Abera Yemeru
14. Migrants, Towns, Poverty, and Jobs: Insights from Tanzania, by Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Bert Ingelaere, and Ravi Kanbur
15. Distributing Benefits from Africäs Urban Growth, by Gabriella Y. Carolini
Contributors
Index