num_pages: 480
description: In recent years concerns about the outcomes and nature of economic growth have given way to a new emphasis on its quality. This volume brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of interrelated questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa with a primary focus on sub-Saharan countries.Contributors discuss the measurement of growth the transformations necessary to sustain it and issues around equity and well-being. They consider topics such as the distribution of income gains from growth; the extent to which economic growth has resulted in improvements in employment poverty and security; structural transformations of the economy and diversification of the sources of growth; environmental sustainability; and management of urbanization. Offering both diagnoses and prescriptions The Quality of Growth in Africa helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into advancements in well-being. Although the book focuses on sub-Saharan Africa much of the contributors incisive analysis has implications for countries outside the region.
language: English
title: The Quality of Growth in Africa
publisher: Columbia University Press