The Quality of Growth in Africa

How can so many decades of economic growth yield so little equity, so few decent jobs, and only limited and disorderly structural transformation? Ravi Kanbur, Akbar Noman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, some of the leading economists of our time, have assembled a dream team of contributors to break new ground on the diagnostic. This sparkling book provides a practical roadmap to prosperity and a blueprint to help Africa reclaim its rightful place in the world. -- Célestin Monga, vice president and chief economist, African Development Bank Group
The Quality of Growth in Africa provides timely and authoritative reviews of the challenges, opportunities, and approaches for achieving inclusive and sustainable growth in Africa—a continent with a burgeoning young population and significant difficulties for realizing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. It is essential reading for scholars and policy makers in Africa and the global development community. -- Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University and former chief economist of the World Bank
In this timely and welcome volume, the contributors bring a myriad of crucial issues—levels of inequality, the quality and quantity of employment, the structural transformation of the African economy, the diversification of exports, and the quality of life in a rapidly industrializing continent—to the front of the policy agenda. Adept and refreshing, this book should be widely disseminated and read. -- Thandika Mkandawire, London School of Economics and former director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
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. -- Ernest Aryeetey, secretary general, African Research Universities Alliance