1st Edition

Sustainable Development in Post-Pandemic Africa Effective Strategies for Resource Mobilization

Edited By Fred Olayele, Yiagadeesen Samy Copyright 2023
268 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

With both domestic and external financing expected to dry up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book argues that there is a need for fresh ideas and new strategies for achieving sustainable development in Africa. In addition to triggering the most severe recession in nearly a century, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global value chains, causing unprecedented damage to healthcare... Read more

Foreword 

Akinwumi A. Adesina (President, African Development Bank) 

Chapter 1 Introduction

Fred Olayele and Yiagadeesen Samy

Chapter 2 Time for a Reset: Leveraging the Green Transition to Harness Minerals for an African Battery Value Chain

Marit Y. Kitaw and John Robert Sloan

Chapter 3 Nigeria’s and Ghana’s SWFs: It is Raining, But Where Are the Funds?

Matt Gouett

Chapter 4 Enhancing Gender-Responsive Financing in Africa: A Sustainable Development Perspective

Akolisa Ufodike and Susanna Ally

Chapter 5 Redesigning Africa’s TVET to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Titi Olayele

Chapter 6 Correcting the Myths

Andrew S. Nevin, Adunola Bello and Omomia Omosomi

Chapter 7 Repurposing FDI Inflows for Development Finance in Africa

David Oludotun Fasanya

Chapter 8 Rethinking Fiscal Space and Debt Sustainability

Bartholomew Armah

Chapter 9 Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area: A Simple, Scalable, and Fast Computational Approach for Algorithmic Governance

Craig Atkinson and Joseph Potvin

Chapter 10 Revisiting Africa’s Deindustrialization Debate

Yiagadeesen Samy and Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba

Chapter 11 Charting the Uncertain Voyage Ahead: The Sustainability and Resiliency Challenges Confronting Africa’s Tourism Industry

Fergus T. Maclaren

Chapter 12 Africa’s Blue Economy as a Development Finance Opportunity: Lessons for Policy Innovation

Jean-Paul Adam and Fred Olayele

Chapter 13 Harnessing the Agriculture Value Chain for Development

Mahamadou Nassirou Ba

Chapter 14 Conclusion

Fred Olayele and Yiagadeeden Samy 

Biography

Fred Olayele is Director, Sprott Centre for African Research and Business, Carleton University, Canada, and Director-General, Pan-African School of Policy Innovation.

Yiagadeesen Samy is Director, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada.