Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa

The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters--a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region--since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of this century were African. Yet only in Ethiopia and Rwanda was growth not based on resources and the rising price of oil. Deindustrialization has yet to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231175183
• ISBN13: 9780231175180
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"