The quality of growth in Africa /

In recent years, concerns about the outcomes and nature of economic growth have given way to a new emphasis on its quality. This volume brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of interrelated questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa, with a primary focus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kanbur, S. M. Ravi, 1954- (Editor ), Noman, Akbar (Editor ), Stiglitz, Joseph E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Colección:Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia (Series)
Temas:
Economic development > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Développement économique > Afrique subsaharienne.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development.
Economic development.
Economic history.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Economic conditions.
Afrique subsaharienne > Conditions économiques.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Quality of growth in Africa : an overview / Ravi Kanbur, Akbar Noman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz
  • 1. Beyond GDP : measuring the quality of growth in Africa / Lorenzo Fioramonti
  • 2. Recent African growth experience : poverty, equity, and political stability / Andy McKay
  • 3. The quality of jobs and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa / Moazam Mahmood
  • 4. New global rules, policy space, and quality of growth in Africa / Antonio Andreoni, Ha-Joon Chang, and Isabel Estevez
  • 5. What should Africa learn from East Asian development? / Jomo Kwame Sundaram
  • 6. Economic transformation for high-quality growth : insights from international cooperation / Akio Hosono
  • 7. Oranges are not only fruit : the industrialization of freshness and the quality of growth / Christopher Cramer and John Sender
  • 8. Sub-Saharan Africa's manufacturing sector : building complexity / 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 / Antonio Andreoni
  • 10. (Re)shaping markets for inclusive economic activity : competition and industrial policies relating to food production in Southern Africa / Simon Roberts
  • 11. Climate change and the quality of growth in Africa / Ben Orlove
  • 12. Does environmental policy make African industry less competitive? The possibilities in green industrial policy / Go Shimada
  • 13. Urbanization and the quality of growth in Africa / Takyiwaa Manuh and Edlam Abera Yemeru
  • 14. Migrants, towns, poverty, and jobs : insights from Tanzania / Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Bert Ingelaere, and Ravi Kanbur
  • 15. Distributing benefits from Africa's urban growth / Gabriella Y. Carolini.

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