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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and GlobalizationPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource : 45 figuresContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231194761
  • 9780231550987
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.967 23
LOC classification:
  • HC800 .Q225 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 on sub-Saharan countries.Contributors discuss the measurement of growth, the transformations necessary to sustain it, and issues around equity and well-being. They consider topics such as the distribution of income gains from growth; the extent to which economic growth has resulted in improvements in employment, poverty, and security; structural transformations of the economy and diversification of the sources of growth; environmental sustainability; and management of urbanization. Offering both diagnoses and prescriptions, The Quality of Growth in Africa helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into advancements in well-being. Although the book focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, much of the contributors' incisive analysis has implications for countries outside the region.
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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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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 on sub-Saharan countries.Contributors discuss the measurement of growth, the transformations necessary to sustain it, and issues around equity and well-being. They consider topics such as the distribution of income gains from growth; the extent to which economic growth has resulted in improvements in employment, poverty, and security; structural transformations of the economy and diversification of the sources of growth; environmental sustainability; and management of urbanization. Offering both diagnoses and prescriptions, The Quality of Growth in Africa helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into advancements in well-being. Although the book focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, much of the contributors' incisive analysis has implications for countries outside the region.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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