The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors
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Wamboye and Fayissa provide a timely and comprehensive treatise on the sectors that shape economic growth and development of African countries. This handbook is a valuable addition to the literature, and a good read for academicians and policymakers.
-Roger White, Whittier College, USA
In this timely handbook, Wamboye and Fayissa present a thorough sectoral analysis for Africa countries and implications for the Continental Free Trade Area. It should be a must read for policymakers and academicians.
-Adugna Lemi, University of Massachusetts, USA
This handbook provides a useful overview, with fresh new insights of the problems/prospects for sustainable economic development in Africa. It is a welcome addition to what we know about the relative importance of economic sectors in Africa’s growth prospects.
-Gregory N. Price, University of New Orleans, USA
This handbook offers evidence-based, holistic analyses of the past and current state of Africa’s economic sectors, with policy recommendations for enhancing future economic growth and sustainable development. It explores the potential benefits that these sectors could harness from the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) agreement. It is an interesting read for graduate students, policymakers, and practitioners
Evelyn F. Wamboye is Associate Professor of Economics at the Pennsylvania State University DuBois, USA, and a non-resident Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA. She is the President of the AFEA, co-editor of GTD, and Editor-in-Chief of JAD. Her research is in international economics and international development. She has published numerous articles in refereed journals, a number of book chapters, and three books. Wamboye holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA.
Bichaka Fayissa is Professor of Economics at Middle Tennessee State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research focuses on the economic growth and development policies of African countries related to remittances, tourism, aid-for-trade, and international trade. Fayissa’s publications have appeared in World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Applied Economics, Journal of International Development, The World Economy, and Tourism Economics.
This handbook provides a reference resource to showcase insightful and nuanced perspectives on Africa’s agriculture, industry, services, and manufacturing sectors; factors affecting the sectors’ competitiveness; and the sectors’ contribution to employment, economic growth, and sustainable development. It also addresses the potential benefits that the sectors could harness from the planned Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), and in particular how CFTA could increase the efficiency and competitiveness of these sectors.
This book provides evidence-based holistic analyses of the past and current state of Africa’s economic sectors, with a strong emphasis on tangible and specific policy recommendations for the purpose of enhancing future economic growth, employment, and sustainable development of the continent. It also assesses the impact of the first-ever Continental Free Trade Area in Africa, and its potential implications for Africa’s integration into regional and global economy and competitiveness relative to other fast developing economies (such as those in Asia). This handbook gives an in-depth analysis of fundamental domestic factors that have relevance on the sectors’ expansion and growth and their contributions to employment, economic growth, and sustainable development in Africa with differential effects across the continent.
Assesses, for the first time, Africa's economic and sustainable development in light of the Continental Free Trade Area Provides current information on each of Africa's economic sectors as economists question the future of Africa's economic development trajectory Contains contributions from a global list of scholars and policy experts
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Evelyn F. Wamboye
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