Research Catalog

Title

Good growth and governance in Africa : rethinking development strategies / edited by Akbar Noman [and others].

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2012.

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Additional Authors

Noman, Akbar.

Description

xxi, 587 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume examines the history of developmental policy in sub-Saharan Africa and considers how different policy options might generate sustained economic growth and reduce poverty. It documents and interprets policy lessons and considers how to translate them to particular country contexts.

Series Statement

The initiative for policy dialogue series

Uniform Title

Initiative for policy dialogue series.

Subject

• Africa, Sub-Saharan > Economic conditions
• Africa, Sub-Saharan > economic policy
• Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Afrika söder om Sahara
• Afrika
• Afrique noire > Politique économique > 1990- ..
• Afrique subsaharienne > Politique économique
• Afrique
• Croissance économique
• Développement économique > Afrique subsaharienne
• Développement économique
• Développement industriel
• Economic development > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Economic development
• Economic growth > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Economic history
• Ekonomisk utveckling
• Ekonomiska förhållanden
• Entwicklungshilfe
• Entwicklungspolitik
• Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
• Extrême-Orient
• Governance
• Modèles de croissance
• Politique de croissance
• Subsaharisches Afrika
• Subsaharisches Afrika
• Wirtschaftsentwicklung
• Wirtschaftsentwicklung

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Strategies for African development / Akbar Noman and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Governance and growth : history, ideology, and methods of proof / Mushtaq H. Khan -- Institutional monocropping and monotasking in Africa / Thandika Mkandawire -- Governance and growth challenges for Africa / Mushtaq H. Khan -- States and markets : neoliberal limitations and the case for a developmental state / Meles Zenawi -- The African economic growth record, and the roles of policy syndromes and governance / Augustin Kwasi Fosu -- Dynamic capacity development : what Africa can learn from industrial policy formulation in East Asia / Izumi Ohno and Kenichi Ohno -- How can low-income countries accelerate their catch-up with high-income countries? The case for open-economy industrial policy / Robert H. Wade -- Institutional capacity and policy choices for latecomer technology development / Banji O. Oyeyinka and Padmashree Gehl Sampath -- State-business relations, investment climate reform, and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa / Kunal Sen and Dirk Willem te Velde -- Africa, industrial policy, and export processing zones : lessons from Asia / Howard Stein --- South African post-apartheid policies towards industrialization : tentative implications for other African countries / Nimrod Zalk -- Issues in Africa's industrial policy process / Matsuo Watanabe and Atsushi Hanatani -- Tiger, tiger, burning bright? Industrial policy "lessons" from Ireland for small African economies / David Bailey, Helena Lenihan, and Ajit Singh -- Employment in sub-Saharan Africa : lessons to be learnt from the East Asian experience / Azizur Rahman Khan -- Skills development for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa : a pragmatic perspective / Yaw Ansu and Jee-Peng Tan -- Economic liberalization and constraints to development in sub-Saharan Africa / Jomo K.S. and Rudiger von Arnim -- The emerging Asian giants and economic development in Africa / Deepak Nayyar.

ISBN

• 9780199698561
• 0199698562
• 9780199698578
• 0199698570

LCCN

2012372414

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries