Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: development policy, agency and Africa in the post-2015 development agenda
- one The post-2015 development agenda: Building a global convergence on policy options
- two Debating post-2015 development-oriented reforms in Africa: agendas for action
- three Public diplomacy for developmental states: implementing the African Mining Vision
- four The role of gender in development: where do boys count?
- five Service-oriented government: the developmental state and service delivery in Africa after 2015 – are capacity indicators important?
- six Employment creation for youth in Africa: the role of extractive industries
- seven Financing the post-2015 development agenda: domestic revenue mobilisation in Africa
- eight Economic performance and social progress in Sub-Saharan Africa: the effect of least developed countries and fragile states
- nine From regional integration to regionalism in Africa: building capacities for the post-Millennium Development Goals agenda
- ten Reforming the Development Banks’ Country Policy and Institutional Assessment as an aid allocation tool: the case for country self-assessment
- eleven Development and sustainability in a warming world: measuring the impacts of climate change in Africa
- twelve African development through peace and security to sustainability
- thirteen African development, political economy and the road to Agenda 2063
- Notes
- Index
Introduction: development policy, agency and Africa in the post-2015 development agenda
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: development policy, agency and Africa in the post-2015 development agenda
- one The post-2015 development agenda: Building a global convergence on policy options
- two Debating post-2015 development-oriented reforms in Africa: agendas for action
- three Public diplomacy for developmental states: implementing the African Mining Vision
- four The role of gender in development: where do boys count?
- five Service-oriented government: the developmental state and service delivery in Africa after 2015 – are capacity indicators important?
- six Employment creation for youth in Africa: the role of extractive industries
- seven Financing the post-2015 development agenda: domestic revenue mobilisation in Africa
- eight Economic performance and social progress in Sub-Saharan Africa: the effect of least developed countries and fragile states
- nine From regional integration to regionalism in Africa: building capacities for the post-Millennium Development Goals agenda
- ten Reforming the Development Banks’ Country Policy and Institutional Assessment as an aid allocation tool: the case for country self-assessment
- eleven Development and sustainability in a warming world: measuring the impacts of climate change in Africa
- twelve African development through peace and security to sustainability
- thirteen African development, political economy and the road to Agenda 2063
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Since 2000, Africa's economic expansion has proceeded with vigorous momentum, maintaining an annual average economic growth rate of 5 per cent or more (IMF, 2013). This robust economic growth is expected to extend beyond 2015, as the continent benefits from opportunities created by a natural resource boom, strong internal demand from its rapidly growing middle class, increased spending on basic infrastructure by both governments and the private sector, adoption and penetration of ICT (for example, mobile telephone penetration has surpassed 90 per cent in urban areas; see The World Bank, 2010), foreign direct and portfolio investments that are projected to reach a record US$80 billion (of which US$57 billion is foreign direct investment, FDI) by the end of 2014, doubling from 2005, and sizeable diaspora remittances, projected to reach US$67.1 billion in 2014 (AfDB, 2014a). However, in 2013, Africa faced major development challenges, some of which had far-reaching implications for the continent. These can be classified as relatively recent (those of yesterday): a rapidly changing demography (youth bulge, urbanisation, horizontal inequalities) and social risks (emerging and re-emerging diseases such as Ebola and Polio, crime, drugs, illicit trade); those of the immediate present (today): transforming agriculture (food security, exports) and global/regional integration (trade, finance, migration, human trafficking, infrastructure); and those of tomorrow: climate change pressures (water and energy insecurity, land shortages/grabs, drought, desertification, coastal populations (McMichael and Butler, 2004)) and technology (UNCTAD, 2012), as well as the business ‘model’ shocks (economic competition, job creation, and natural resource governance, beneficiation and its distribution).
Africa's economies have need of not only a new dynamism to respond to global competition, but also a strategy that will enhance transformation and socioeconomic achievement beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly within the context of the post-2015 development framework, and which will include a wide range of development solutions around issues such food and energy security, and enhance service delivery and social inclusion. Africa must work on securing social and political stability and build effective economic governance. This must take the form of a concerted effort in order to enhance national and regional capacity for successful and sustainable development, creating a society that can deal with questions of agency and political economy for quality service delivery, social inclusion and democratic accountability.
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- Development in AfricaRefocusing the Lens after the Millennium Development Goals, pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2015