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Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xxi, 587 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Economic development--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Industrial policy--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic policy.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic conditions--1960-

Other Authors:

Noman, Akbar.

Notes:

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.

Series:

The initiative for policy dialogue series

ISBN:

0199698570 (pbk.)
9780199698578 (pbk.)
0199698562
9780199698561

OCLC:

(OCoLC)774634091

LCCN:

2012372414

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)