Disruptions and Rhetoric in African Development Policy [Paperback]

Overview  Chapter 1. Development as disruptions  a reconstruction of the theory and practice  Chapter 2. Social discontent as search for development: from colonialism to independence  Chapter 3. Natural resources, climate change and poor beneficiation  the potential for a curse  Chapter 4. Trade versus aid: economics, politics, and dilemmas in development cooperation  Chapter 5. Food insecurity and agricultural stagnation  Chapter 6: Demography and migration  seeking out the dividends  Chapter 7. Pandemics and diseases as forces of dislocation  a post-COVID-19 view  Chapter 8. Conflict, drugs and criminal upheavals in African development  Chapter 9. Innovation, AI and technology as handmaiden of development  Chapter 10: Democracy and social inclusion: bridging public action and development policy rhetoric

George Kararach is a Lead Economist for the African Development Bank Group, Abidjan, Cote dIviore, Visiting Professor at the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and a Non-Resident Fellow, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines, Illinois, USA and until recently Senior Economist at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).

Very topical, fresh and welcome approach to familiar and new development challenges in Africa, calling for leaders to take the initiative and think in new, African-led, ways to achieve the structural transformation and sustained development progress the continent so much needs.

Andy McKay, Professor of Development Economics, University of Sussex.

A meticulous and comprehensive evaluation of the development challenges that Africa faces, but one that charts many potential positive paths ahead. Excitingly, Africa's futures are l³*