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Millennium development goals (MDGs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) have significant implications for global development, in particular for African countries. This book seeks to assist Africa's policy makers and political leaders, MNCs and NGOs, plus its increasingly heterogeneous media landscape, to understand and better respond or negotiate the evolving development environment of the 21st century.
In this collection of nuanced essays, the contributors interrogate the relationship between the MDGs and SDGs in key areas of African development to enhance our understanding and knowledge of the evolving nature of development. They address issues of governance, agriculture, south-south cooperation in a context of foreign aid, natural resource governance and sustainable development, export diversification and economic growth as well as emerging topics such as the internet of things or the sharing economy, climate change, conflict and non-traditional security. The varied, yet interlinked foci present a holistic overview of Africa's development aspirations, and ability to transform the SDGs' universal aspirations into local realities.
This book will be of use to academics and students in Development Studies, Contemporary African Studies, Political Science, Policy Studies and Geography, and should also appeal to policy makers and development practitioners.
List of contents
Chapter 1 - MDGs to SDGs: African Development Challenges and Prospects
Chapter 2 - The African State and Development Initiatives: The Role of Good Governance in the Realization of the MDGs and SDGs
Chapter 3 - Conflict and Sustainable Development Goals in Africa
Chapter 4 - From MDGs to SDGs: The Policy and Institutional Dynamics of African Agriculture
Chapter 5 - South-South Cooperation, SDGs, and Africa's development: A Study of China's Development Intervention in Ghana
Chapter 6 - Natural Resource Governance & Sustainable Development in Africa: Are We There Yet?
Chapter 7 - Does the Sophistication of Exports matter in Sustaining Growth in Middle-income African Countries?
Chapter 8 - The Internet of Things and Sharing Economy: Harnessing the Possibilities for Africa's Sustainable Development Goals
Chapter 9 - Environment and Climate Change in Africa in an Era of Sustainable Development Goals
Chapter 10 - Crystalizing Africa Rising Narrative with Sustainable Development
About the author
Kobena T. Hanson is CEO of Strategic Outlooks, a research consultancy & advisory firm in Ghana, and a Knowledge Management Consultant to African Development Bank (AfDB).
Korbla P. Puplampu is in the Department of Sociology at Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada.
Timothy M. Shaw is Faculty Fellow, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School, UMB.
Summary
This volume seeks to interrogate the relationship between the MDGs and SDGs in key areas of African development by weaving together a collection of nuanced essays to enhance our understanding and knowledge of the evolving nature of development.
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"In exploring the international development community's expanded the focus from MDGs to SDGs, this timely and well-written book offers a refreshing look at the synergies between the SDGs and Africa's own development agenda and stresses the critical role that African leaders can play in achieving the SDGs." - Francis Owusu, Professorand Chair of the Department of Community & Regional Planning, Iowa State University.
"As an African researcher and educationist who lives on the continent, I believe "From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals" will be a point of reference for many years to come. The book is a brilliant piece of work in which the informed contributors give great thoughts for Africa's positive way forward. It suggests practices that will shape the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in Africa and brings unimaginable prospects in Africa closer in time and space. I highly recommend this comprehensive and well-reasoned contribution to the world." - Professor Hany Besada, Deputy Executive Director, Diamond Development Initiative.
