Sustainable Growth in the African Economy: How Durable Is Africa's Recent Performance?

ISBN-13: 9780367877781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str.

Jeffrey James

Opis

Sustainable Growth in the African Economy considers whether the relatively rapid growth of recent years can be maintained or improved upon, with a focus on the process of industrialization. This book seeks to show how this distorted growth process leaves out the major resource of these countries – labour –ends up creating unstable emplo

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Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

PART I Defining the issues

2 Structural change in historical perspective

3 The Lewis model in alternative historical contexts

4 The (un)sustainability of Africa’s growth path

PART II Countervailing tendencies and policies

5 Towards labour-intensity in African manufacturing

6 The new global economic order: prospects for African manufacturing

7 A note on services as a growth escalator in Africa

8 Is there a renewed role for appropriate technology in the new global economic order?

PART III Building technological capabilities

9 Trait-making for labour-intensive technology in Africa: insights from infrastructure

10 A critique of macro measures of technological capabilities in an African perspective

11 Conclusions

References

Index

O autorze

Jeffrey James is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.