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'Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development' is a study of structural change dynamics in Africa and its effect on job creation, living standards and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefit the majority. Empirical data from selected African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia, provides in-depth analysis and knowledge of the continent's diversified economies by establishing relationships between industrialization trends; rates of urbanization; and urban living standards, income growth and employment in Africa. The findings reveal unconventional pathways of structural change, patterns of jobless growth suggesting economic growth that does not necessarily lead to employment, dominance of services at the expense of manufacturing industry explaining the regress in Africa's industrial sector and occurrence of structural transformation without improvement in labour productivity. These are important concerns for Africa's long-term development leading to the conclusion that sustainable urbanization and industrialization are not only closely connected but also key drivers of economic change. The book includes recommendations for policymakers to adopt a new approach to development for a resurgent Africa.

Sustainable development --- Economic history. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- E-books

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This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart environmental sustainability, smart social development, resilience, and smart peace and security in several African cities. By drawing on the accumulated knowledge on various conditions that make cities smart, green, livable and healthy, it helps in the planning, design and management of African urbanization. In turn, it fosters the development of e-commerce, e-education, e-governance, etc. The rapid development of ICT infrastructures facilitates the creation of smart economies in digitally served cities and towns through smart urban planning, smart infrastructures, smart land tenure and smart urban policies. In the long term, this can reduce emissions of CO2, promote the creation of low carbon cities, reduce land degradation and promote biodiversity.

Regional planning. --- Economic development—Environmental aspects. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Urban economics. --- Physical geography. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Development and Sustainability. --- Mathematical and Computational Engineering. --- Urban Economics. --- Physical Geography. --- City planning --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management --- Geography --- City economics --- Economics of cities --- Economics --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Regional development --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Landscape protection --- Economic aspects --- Mathematics

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Economic development --- Information technology --- Technological innovations --- Economic aspects

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Sustainable Industrialization in Africa explores the issues that confront development policy in the context of the MDGs and the post-2015 development agenda from an African perspective. The book argues that development is an ultimate outcome of sustainable, equitable industrialization, and that any development agenda for the future has to ensure that industrialization is fostered in a way that makes economies independent and responsive to the needs of all citizens. Future challenges for sustainable industrialization in Africa, based upon the differences in its current industrialization trajectories, are discussed to ensure that industrial growth results in positive economic and social outcomes in the context of the post-2015 development agenda.

Sustainable development --- Industrialization --- Industrial policy --- Economic development --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- Environmental aspects --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Business --- Industries --- Industry and state --- Industrial development --- Government policy --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Deindustrialization --- Development economics. --- International business enterpris. --- Leadership. --- Industrial management-Environmen. --- Industrial organization. --- International economics. --- Development Economics. --- International Business. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Sustainability Management. --- Industrial Organization. --- International Economics. --- Economic policy, Foreign --- Economic relations, Foreign --- Economics, International --- Foreign economic policy --- Foreign economic relations --- Interdependence of nations --- International economic policy --- International economics --- New international economic order --- International relations --- Economic sanctions --- Organization --- Industrial concentration --- Industrial management --- Industrial sociology --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- International business enterprises. --- Industrial management—Environmental aspects. --- Business enterprises, International --- Corporations, International --- Global corporations --- International corporations --- MNEs (International business enterprises) --- Multinational corporations --- Multinational enterprises --- Transnational corporations --- Business enterprises --- Corporations --- Joint ventures

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Development aid. Development cooperation --- Economics --- Mathematics --- Applied physical engineering --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Computer. Automation --- Environmental planning --- Physical geography --- Economic geography --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- ruimtelijke ordening --- Smart City --- co-creation --- duurzaamheid --- economie --- ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- wiskunde --- geografie --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- fysische geografie