Jeffrey James

Sustainable Growth in the African Economy

How Durable is Africa�s Recent Performance?

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780367877781
• ISBN-10: 0367877783
• Artikelnr.: 58439108

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
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