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List of contents
Foreword by Akinwumi A. Adesina (President, African Development Bank) Introduction FRED OLAYELE AND YIAGADEESEN SAMY 2 Time for a Reset: Leveraging the Green Transition to Harness Minerals for an African Battery Value Chain MARIT Y. K ITAW AND JOHN ROBERT SLOAN 3 Nigeria’s and Ghana’s SWFs: It is Raining, But Where Are the Funds? MATT GOUETT 4 Enhancing Gender-Responsive Financing in Africa: A Sustainable Development Perspective AKOLISA UFODIKE AND SUSANNA ALLY 5 Redesigning Africa’s TVET to Achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals TITI OLAYELE 6 Correcting the Myths ANDREW S. NEVIN, ADUNOLA BELLO AND OMOMIA OMOSOMI 7 Repurposing FDI Inf lows for Development Finance in Africa DAVID OLUDOTUN FASANYA 8 Rethinking Fiscal Space and Debt Sustainability BARTHOLOMEW ARMAH 9 Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area: A Simple, Scalable, and Fast Computational Approach for Algorithmic Governance CRAIG ATKINSON AND JOSEPH POTVIN 10 Revisiting Africa’s Deindustrialization Debate YIAGADEESEN SAMY AND SAMUEL OJO OLORUNTOBA 11 Charting the Uncertain Voyage Ahead: The Sustainability and Resiliency Challenges Confronting Africa’s Tourism Industry FERGUS T. MACLAREN 12 Africa’s Blue Economy as a Development Finance Opportunity: Lessons for Policy Innovation JEAN-PAUL ADAM AND FRED OLAYELE 13 Harnessing the Agriculture Value Chain for Development MAHAMADOU NASSIROU BA 14 Conclusion FRED OLAYELE AND YIAGADEESEN SAMY
About the author
Fred Olayele is Director, Sprott Centre for African Research and Business, Carleton University, Canada, and Director-General, Pan-African School of Policy Innovation.
Yiagadeesen Samy is Director, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada.
Summary
With both domestic and external financing expected to dry up in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, this book argues that there is a need for fresh ideas and new strategies for achieving sustainable development in Africa. It adopts a sectoral approach and examines the real economy impacts of new growth drivers.
