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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Future of Africa
    sub title: Challenges and Opportunities
  name:
    name part: Cilliers, Jakkie.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2021
    edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XVII, 421 pages 57 illustrations, 55 illustrations in color.)
  abstract: This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, what explains the current state, and, given historical trends and what we know about the world, where do we think the continent will be in 2040? And, a final question: what can we do to create a better tomorrow? It models ambitious progress in health, demographics, agriculture, education, industrialization, technological leapfrogging, increased trade, greater stability, better governance and external support. The book reviews the future of work/jobs, poverty and the impact of climate change. A combined Closing the Gap scenario presents a forecast of what could be possible by 2040. Each chapter suggests which policies might accelerate prospects for each sector. Written in an accessible style, and supported by a range of pedagogical features, this textbook introduces undergraduate and graduate students to the contemporary human and economic development prospects in Africa. Jakkie Cilliers is the founder of the Institute for Security Studies. He now serves as head of the African Futures and Innovation program and chair of the ISS Board of Trustees. He is an extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
  table of contents: 1. The Growing Gap -- 2. Africa's Current Path -- 3. Health -- 4. Getting to Africa's Demographic Dividend -- 5. Wanted - A Revolution in Agriculture -- 6. Boosting Education -- 7. Poverty, Inequality and Growth -- 8. Changing Productive Structures -- 9. The Future of Work in Africa -- 10. Technological Innovation and the Power of Leapfrogging -- 11. Trade and Growth -- 12. Prospects for Greater Peace -- 13. Good Governance, Democracy and Development -- 14. Aid, Remittances and Foreign Direct Investment -- 15. Climate Change -- 16. Conclusion.
  note: by Jakkie Cilliers.
  note: Open Access
  subject:
    topic: Africa-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Economic development
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: African Politics
  subject:
    topic: Development Studies
  subject:
    topic: Political Economy/Economic Systems
  classification: JQ1870-3981
  classification: 320.96
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    title info:
      title: Springer Nature eBook
  identifier: 9783030465902
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46590-2
  access condition: Open Access
  record info:
    record creation date: 210406
    record change date: 20230829015733.2
    record identifier: in00004415576