The Quality of Growth in Africa /

The Quality of Growth in Africa / / ed. by Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Ravi Kanbur.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Andreoni, Antonio,
Bhorat, Haroon,
Carolini, Gabriella Y.,
Chang, Ha-Joon,
Christiaensen, Luc,
Cramer, Christopher,
De Weerdt, Joachim,
Estevez, Isabel,
Fioramonti, Lorenzo,
Hosono, Akio,
Ingelaere, Bert,
Kanbur, Ravi,
Mahmood, Moazam,
Manuh, Takyiwaa,
McKay, Andy,
Noman, Akbar,
Orlove, Ben,
Roberts, Simon,
Rooney, Christopher,
Sender, John,
Shimada, Go,
Steenkamp, François,
Stiglitz, Joseph E.,
Sundaram, Jomo Kwame,
Yemeru, Edlam Abera,
HerausgeberIn:
Kanbur, Ravi,
Noman, Akbar,
Stiglitz, Joseph E.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 45 figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Quality of Growth in Africa: An Overview
  • Part I. Gross Domestic Product, Equity, and Employment
  • 1. Beyond GDP: Measuring the Quality of Growth in Africa
  • 2. Recent African Growth Experience: Poverty, Equity, and Political Stability
  • 3. The Quality of Jobs and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Part II. Structural Transformation for Quality Growth
  • 4. New Global Rules, Policy Space, and Quality of Growth in Africa
  • 5. What Should Africa Learn from East Asian Development?
  • 6. Economic Transformation for High-Quality Growth: Insights from International Cooperation
  • 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
  • 8. Sub-Saharan Africa's Manufacturing Sector: Building Complexity
  • 9. A Generalized Linkage Approach to Local Production Systems Development in the Era of Global Value Chains, with Special Reference to Africa
  • 10. (Re)shaping Markets for Inclusive Economic Activity: Competition and Industrial Policies Relating to Food Production in Southern Africa
  • Part IV. Environment
  • 11. Climate Change and the Quality of Growth in Africa
  • 12. Does Environmental Policy Make African Industry Less Competitive? The Possibilities in Green Industrial Policy
  • Part V. Urbanization
  • 13. Urbanization and the Quality of Growth in Africa
  • 14. Migrants, Towns, Poverty, and Jobs: Insights from Tanzania
  • 15. Distributing Benefits from Africa's Urban Growth
  • Contributors
  • Index

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