Good growth and governance in Africa: rethinking development strategies

Abstract

PART I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 1. Strategies for African Development PART II: GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND THE STATE 2. Governance and Growth: History, Ideology and Methods of Proof 3. Institutional Monocroping and Monotasking in Africa 4. Governance and Growth Challenges for Africa 5. States and Markets: Neoliberal Limitations and the Case for a Developmental State 6. The African Economic Growth Record, and the Roles of Policy Syndromes and Governance PART III: TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRIAL AND TRADE POLICIES 7. Dynamic Capacity Development: What Africa Can Learn from Industrial Policy Formulation in East Asia 8. How can Low-Income Countries Accelerate their Catch-up with High-Income Countries? The Case for Open-Economy Industrial Policy 9. Institutional Capacity and Policy Choices for Latecomer Technology Development 10. State-Business Relations, Investment Climate Reform and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa 11. Africa, Industrial Policy and Export Processing Zones: Lessons from Asia 12. South African Post-Apartheid Policies Towards Industrialization: Tentative Implications for Other African Countries 13. Issues in Africa's Industrial Policy Process 14. Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright? Industrial Policy Lessons from Ireland for Small African Economies PART IV: EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN CAPITAL 15. Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons to be Learnt from the East Asian Experience 16. Skills Development for Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pragmatic Perspective PART V: INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT 17. Economic Liberalization and Constraints to Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 18. The Emerging Asian Giants and Economic Development in Africa