New Pathways to Job Creation and Development in Africa: The Promise of Industries without Smokestacks - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0815740174 ISBN 13: 9780815740179

Casa editrice: Brookings Institution Press, 2025

Riassunto

Through the lens of eight country case studies and three comparative chapters, this book maps the historically unique process of structural transformation occurring in Africa.

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Haroon Bhorat is Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He serves on the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), and holds a prestigious SARChI Chair in Economic Growth, Poverty and Inequality Research. He is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a UNU-WIDER Board Member.

BRAHIMA COULIBALY is vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings and the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar, having served earlier as director of the program's Africa Growth Initiative. Previously he was chief economist and head of the emerging market and developing economies group at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He has published widely on topics in international finance, macroeconomics, economic development, monetary economics, and trade. His research has featured in prominent media outlets. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.

Richard Newfarmer is the Country Director for Uganda and Rwanda at the International Growth Centre. Previously, he was the World Bank's Special Representative to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, after a career working with the Bank in China, East Asia and Latin America. In 2018, he co-edited Industries without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered.

John Page is senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program of the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC and nonresident senior fellow of UNU-WIDER. He was the World Bank's chief economist for Africa until 2008 and has published widely on industrial development and industrial policy in Africa and Asia. He is the co-author of UNIDO's Industrial Development Report, 2009.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Brookings Institution Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0815740174
• ISBN 13: 9780815740179
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528
• Redattore: Bhorat Haroon, Coulibaly Brahima, Newfarmer Richard, Page John
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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