Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Quality of Growth in Africa: An Overview 1
5. Part I. Gross Domestic Product, Equity, and Employment
6. 1. Beyond GDP: Measuring the Quality of Growth in Africa 33
7. 2. Recent African Growth Experience: Poverty, Equity, and Political Stability 54
8. 3. The Quality of Jobs and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa 76
9. Part II. Structural Transformation for Quality Growth
10. 4. New Global Rules, Policy Space, and Quality of Growth in Africa 111
11. 5. What Should Africa Learn from East Asian Development? 146
12. 6. Economic Transformation for High-Quality Growth: Insights from International Cooperation 177
13. Part III. Economic Transformation: Industrializing Agriculture, Complexity, and Global Value Chains
14. 7. Oranges Are Not Only Fruit: The Industrialization of Freshness and the Quality of Growth 209
15. 8. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Manufacturing Sector: Building Complexity 234
16. 9. A Generalized Linkage Approach to Local Production Systems Development in the Era of Global Value Chains, with Special Reference to Africa 264
17. 10. (Re)shaping Markets for Inclusive Economic Activity: Competition and Industrial Policies Relating to Food Production in Southern Africa 295
18. Part IV. Environment
19. 11. Climate Change and the Quality of Growth in Africa 325
20. 12. Does Environmental Policy Make African Industry Less Competitive? The Possibilities in Green Industrial Policy 350
21. Part V. Urbanization
22. 13. Urbanization and the Quality of Growth in Africa 375
23. 14. Migrants, Towns, Poverty, and Jobs: Insights from Tanzania 398
24. 15. Distributing Benefits from Africa’s Urban Growth 421
25. Contributors 435
26. Index 445