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Zusatztext African countries have pursued economic reforms to attain more rapid growth in the last three decades. They have also been driven to reduce poverty and income inequality. This book provides good explanations of the countries' varied successes. It is an excellent indication of the challenges that Africa faces as it considers structural transformation. Informationen zum Autor Ravi Kanbur is T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and professor of economics at Cornell University. He has served on the senior staff at the World Bank, including as chief economist for Africa. Akbar Noman is senior fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and teaches as an adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He has worked at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and at senior levels of government. He is coeditor, with Joseph E. Stiglitz, of Efficiency, Finance, and Varieties of Industrial Policy: Guiding Resources, Learning, and Technology for Sustained Growth (Columbia, 2016). Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and is founding president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue. A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, he is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, a former member and chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, and chair of the international Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. He is the author of Globalization and Its Discontents (2002), The Price of Inequality (2012), Creating a Learning Society (Columbia, 2014, with Bruce Greenwald), and most recently, People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent (2019). Klappentext Bringing together prominent international contributors to consider a range of questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa, this text offers both diagnoses and prescriptions, and helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into improvements in well-being. Zusammenfassung This book brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa. 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 improvements in well-being. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction. Quality of Growth in Africa: An Overview, by Ravi Kanbur, Akbar Noman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz Part I. Gross Domestic Product, Equity, and Employment 1. Beyond GDP: Measuring the Quality of Growth in Africa, by Lorenzo Fioramonti 2. Recent African Growth Experience: Poverty, Equity, and Political Stability, by Andy McKay 3. The Quality of Jobs and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Moazam Mahmood Part II. Structural Transformation for Quality Growth 4. New Global Rules, Policy Space, and Quality of Growth in Africa, by Antonio Andreoni, Ha-Joon Chang, and Isabel Estevez 5. What Should Africa Learn from East Asian Development?, by Jomo Kwame Sundaram 6. Economic Transformation for High-Quality Growth: Insights from International Cooperation, by Akio Hosono 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, by Christopher Cramer and John Sender 8. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Manufacturing Sector: Building Complexity, by 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, by Antonio Andreoni 10. (Re)shaping Markets for Inclusive...
