African Development, African Transformation: How Institutions Shape Development Strategy

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Africa is home to many of the world's fastest-growing economies. This powerful book traces new continental institutions for development and their capacity to affect economic growth, regional integration, and international cooperation in Africa. It also assesses Africa's ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union's Agenda 2063. As the continent's most ambitious development initiative since independence, the African Union Development Agency (or AUDA, previously known as the New Partnership for Africa's Development or NEPAD) provides an excellent case study for examining how an African-based, continent-wide development institution emerged. Inspired by the ideas of Pan-Africanism and the African renaissance, NEPAD was created to bring Africa into the globalizing world, to close the gap between developing and developed countries, to enhance economic growth, and to eradicate poverty. Almost two decades after NEPAD's creation and given its transformation into AUDA, this brilliant book examines AUDA's role in achieving these goals.

Landry Signe is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Global Economy and Development and Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University's Center for African Studies, Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Chairman of the Global Network for Africa's Prosperity, Professor and Senior Adviser to the Chancellor at UAA, Special Adviser to Global Leaders, and was a Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Fellow, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford. He is the author of numerous key publications in the political economy of development with a focus on Africa and has a special interest in the politics of economic reform, regional integration, institutional change, business in emerging and frontier markets, global political economy, governance, state capacity and fragility, political regimes, public service delivery and the fourth industrial revolution. He is the recipient of more than sixty awards and recognitions from four continents. He has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for 'finding innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues', as an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow who 'drives the transformation of Africa,' and was named one of the 'Top 10 Outstanding Young Persons in the World.' He has authored numerous key publications, including Innovating Development Strategies in Africa (Cambridge, 2017). His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and Harvard International Review.

'... a book for policymakers that would also be helpful to students and scholars with a working knowledge of the African Union.' Ben Jones, African Studies Review