Unlocking Africa S Sustainable Development

Author : Patrick Ssempeera
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781532097072

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Unlocking Africa’s Sustainable Development by Patrick Ssempeera Pdf

With the world increasingly anxious about the sustainability of life as we know it on Earth, it’s a great time to consider how to unlock sustainable development. Patrick Ssempeera shares a collection of ideas focused on Africa, which is less industrialized than much of the world but quickly catching up. He tackles a variety of topics in eight chapters that encompass attitude, spirituality, shaping people into nurturing adults, government policy, promoting renewability, and fostering healthy and intimate integrations. Get answers to questions such as: • What can Africa learn from rampant levels of pollution in China and elsewhere? • How is love of culture connected to sustainable development? • What can Africans do to work toward a self-driven future? • How can spiritual leaders promote a sustainable agenda? The author also explores how politics, education, optimism, industrialization, and globalization are connected to sustainable development. Steeped in history, filled with insights, and laced with diagrams, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in sustainable development—particularly in Africa.

Author : Patrick Ssempeera
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1532097050

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Unlocking Africa's Sustainable Development by Patrick Ssempeera Pdf

This book comes at a time when the world is anxious about the sustainability of planet earth. Patrick has made a collection of ideas on how Africa's sustainable development should focus. These ideas are explicitly brought out under the eight chapters of the book. These include: attitude, spirituality, shaping people to nurture into adults the 21st Century calls for, debates that focus on government policy, promoting renewability and fostering healthy and intimate integrations. Book Chapters 1. Culture and Religion 2. Our Politics 3. Education System 4. Optimism and Positivity 5. Phenomenology and Probability 6. Women and Youth Empowerment 7. Industrialization and Globalization 8. Integrations

Author : Landry Signe
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815737391

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Unlocking Africa's Business Potential by Landry Signe Pdf

Africa welcomes business investment and offers some of the world's highest returns and impacts Africa has tremendous economic potential and offers rewarding opportunities for global businesses looking for new markets and long-term investments with favorable returns. Africa has been one of the world's fastest-growing regions over the past decade, and by 2030 will be home to nearly 1.7 billion people and an estimated $6.7 trillion worth of consumer and business spending. Increased political stability in recent years and improving regional integration are making market access easier, and business expansion will generate jobs for women and youth, who represent the vast majority of the population. Current economic growth and poverty-alleviation efforts mean that more than 43 percent of the continent's people will reach middle- or upper-class status by 2030. Unlocking Africa's Business Potential examines business opportunities in the eight sectors with the highest potential returns on private investment—the same sectors that will foster economic growth and diversification, job creation, and improved general welfare. These sectors include: consumer markets, agriculture and agriprocessing, information and communication technology, manufacturing, oil and gas, tourism, banking, and infrastructure and construction. The book's analysis of these sectors is based on case studies that identify specific opportunities for investment and growth, along with long-term market projections to inform decision-making. The book identifies potential risks to business and offers mitigation strategies. It also provides policymakers with solutions to attract new business investments, including how to remove barriers to business and accelerate development of the private sector.

Author : Maano Ramutsindela,David Mickler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030148577

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Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals by Maano Ramutsindela,David Mickler Pdf

The book draws upon the expertise and international research collaborations forged by the Worldwide Universities Network Global Africa Group to critically engage with the intersection, in theory and practice, of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Africa’s development agendas and needs. Further, it argues that – and demonstrates how – the SDGs should be understood as an aspirational blueprint for development with multiple meanings that are situated in dynamic and contested terrains. As the SDGs have substantial implications for development policy and resourcing at both the macro and micro levels, their relevance is not only context-specific but should also be assessed in terms of the aspirations and needs of ordinary citizens across the continent. Drawing on analyses and evidence from both the natural and social sciences, the book demonstrates that progress towards the SDGs must meet demands for improving human well-being under diverse and challenging socio-economic, political and environmental conditions. Examples include those from the mining industry, public health, employment and the media. In closing, it highlights how international collaboration in the form of research networks can enhance the production of critical knowledge on and engagement with the SDGs in Africa.

Author : Elena G. Popkova,Bruno S. Sergi,Lubinda Haabazoka,Julia V. Ragulina
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030419790

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Supporting Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development in Africa - Volume I by Elena G. Popkova,Bruno S. Sergi,Lubinda Haabazoka,Julia V. Ragulina Pdf

This edited volume explores and dissects Africa's economic growth and sustainable development using an optimal conceptual model of the progressive continent's development up to and until 2030. Africa is studied not against the background of developed (OECD) and leading developing (e.g. BRICS) countries, but as a separate economy and as a self-sufficient region which follows its own priorities, and implements its own unique opportunities and vectors of growth and development. This first volume addresses the contemporary and topical issues of inclusive growth, digital modernisation, and sustainable development, recommending policy outcomes for the future.

Author : African Union Commission,OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264606531

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Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs by African Union Commission,OECD Pdf

Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons learned in the continent’s five regions – Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa – to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, this analysis of development dynamics attempts to help African leaders reach the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.

Author : Robert Ndong
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781039114906

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Unlocking Our Shared Value by Robert Ndong Pdf

Africa's subsoil is rich in hydrocarbons, precious and base metals, and rare metals that are particularly strategic for the global transition to a low-carbon economy. In this context, the continent's beautiful, serious, and pressing challenge is to ensure that the exploitation of its immense natural resources takes place in compliance with the best international standards in terms of sustainable development and transparent management. Then, the wealth created can contribute to the significant improvement of living conditions for the populations of the host countries, while ensuring the attractiveness and competitiveness vis-à-vis other major mining regions. The mining industry obviously has a central role to play in this dynamic. Balancing the interests of varying stakeholders and shareholders, including those often seen at odds like profitability and environmental and social responsibility, Unlocking Our Shared Value proposes a sustainable vision for the future of the extractives industry in West Africa. Targeted at an audience of corporate professionals and academics, this text thoroughly examines the diverse concerns and factors at play in responsible mining and corporate practice. For corporate executives, operational managers, and sustainability practitioners, this book will provide useful tools, strategies, best practices, and a roadmap to build, strengthen or realign the sustainability journey of their organizations, while helping investors have the whole picture of the risks and opportunities related to sustainability during their investment decisions. Therefore, this work will set a new level of corporate sustainability strategies within the extractive sector in West Africa and around the world.

Author : Kobena T. Hanson,Korbla P. Puplampu,Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351855006

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From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals by Kobena T. Hanson,Korbla P. Puplampu,Timothy M. Shaw Pdf

Millennium development goals (MDGs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) have significant implications for global development, in particular for African countries. This book seeks to assist Africa’s policy makers and political leaders, MNCs and NGOs, plus its increasingly heterogeneous media landscape, to understand and better respond or negotiate the evolving development environment of the 21st century. In this collection of nuanced essays, the contributors interrogate the relationship between the MDGs and SDGs in key areas of African development to enhance our understanding and knowledge of the evolving nature of development. They address issues of governance, agriculture, south-south cooperation in a context of foreign aid, natural resource governance and sustainable development, export diversification and economic growth as well as emerging topics such as the internet of things or the sharing economy, climate change, conflict and non-traditional security. The varied, yet interlinked foci present a holistic overview of Africa’s development aspirations, and ability to transform the SDGs’ universal aspirations into local realities. This book will be of use to academics and students in Development Studies, Contemporary African Studies, Political Science, Policy Studies and Geography, and should also appeal to policy makers and development practitioners.

Author : LIT Verlag
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643964045

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Sustainable Development Goal Nine and African Development by LIT Verlag Pdf

This issue of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook focusses on the relevance of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9 ("Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation") for Africa's development. Issues are analysed at the continental level and in country case studies. Unit 1 presents in four essays the African continental perspectives and achievements. Unit 2 presents six essays, which are focussing on aspects of the eight targets of SDG 9 in country cases. Unit 3 presents book reviews and book notes in the context of SDG 9. Tobias Knedlik is Research Professor at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) and Professor for International Economics at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Samia Satti Mohamed Nour is Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. Anthony Ifeanyi Ugulu is researcher at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Karl Wohlmuth is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Economics and Business Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. Open Access Download

Author : Bessie House-Soremekun,Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781580463928

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Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa by Bessie House-Soremekun,Toyin Falola Pdf

The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa.

Author : Tetteh A. Kofi,Asayehgn Desta
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106019290672

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Saga of African Underdevelopment by Tetteh A. Kofi,Asayehgn Desta Pdf

Author : Walter Leal Filho,Rudi Pretorius,Luiza Olim de Sousa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030746933

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Sustainable Development in Africa by Walter Leal Filho,Rudi Pretorius,Luiza Olim de Sousa Pdf

This book serves the purpose of documenting and promoting African experiences on sustainable development, which encompasses both, formal and non-formal education. Sustainable development is very important to Africa, but there is a paucity of publication which documents and promotes experiences from African countries. Due to their complexity, the interrelations between social, economic and political factors related to sustainable development, especially at universities, need to be better understood. There is also a real need to showcase successful examples of how African institutions are handling their sustainability challenges. It is against this background that this book has been produced. It is a truly interdisciplinary publication, useful to scholars, social movements, practitioners and members of governmental agencies and private companies, undertaking research and/or executing projects focusing on sustainability from across Africa. As African nations strive to pursue the UN Sustainable Development Goals, it is imperative to cater for the information needs seen across the continent and foster the dissemination of experiences and case studies, which may support both, on-going and future efforts. The scope of the book is deliberately kept wide, and we are looking for contributions across the spectrum of sustainable development from business and economics, to arts and fashion, administration, environment, languages and media studies.

Author : Okechukwu Ukaga,Osita George Afoaku
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1592212360

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Sustainable Development in Africa by Okechukwu Ukaga,Osita George Afoaku Pdf

Using a variety of tools from various disciplines, Sustainable Development in Africa examines factors limiting sustainable development in Africa. Among the recommendations made to remedy the situation is the call for a more holistic approach to the problem, resolving the urban crisis that is central to African economic recovery and to develop a new security system that transcends the narrow military focus security.

Author : Masafumi Nagao,Jennifer L. Broadhurst,Sampson Edusah,Kwabena G. Awere
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781942876458

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Sustainable Development in Africa by Masafumi Nagao,Jennifer L. Broadhurst,Sampson Edusah,Kwabena G. Awere Pdf

Consisting of nine original chapters, this volume on theory and methods on sustainable development in Africa are crafted from a series of Sustainable Development Workshops organized by eight partner universities in Africa. The book responds to the call for concepts and methods suited to explaining and understanding sustainable development challenges on the African continent. Contributors are African faculty and graduates of the three master’s programmes in Sustainable Urban Development, Sustainable Integrated Rural Development and Mining and Mineral Resources, coordinated by the eight partner African universities who make up the Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) initiative.

Author : Frank F. K. Byamugisha
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821398104

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Securing Africa's Land for Shared Prosperity by Frank F. K. Byamugisha Pdf

This is the first book on land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all developing countries around the world. It provides simple practical steps to turn the hugely controversial subject of "land grabs� into a development opportunity by improving land governance to reduce the risks of dispossessing poor landholders while ensuring mutually beneficial investors’ deals. The book shows how Sub Saharan Africa can leverage its abundant and highly valuable natural resources to eradicate poverty by improving land governance through a ten point program to scale up policy reforms and investments at a cost of USD 4.5 billion. The book points out formidable challenges to implementation including high vulnerability to land grabbing and expropriation with poor compensation as about 90 percent of rural lands in Sub Saharan Africa are undocumented, but also timely opportunities since high commodity prices and investor interest in large scale agriculture have increased land values and returns to investing in land administration. It argues that success in implementation will require participation of many players including Pan-African organizations, Sub Saharan Africa governments, the private sector, civil society and development partners; but that ultimate success will depend on the political will of Sub Saharan Africa governments to move forward with comprehensive policy reforms and on concerted support by the international development community. Its rigorous analysis of land governance issues, yet down-to-earth solutions, are a reflection of Byamugisha's more than 20 years of global experience in land reform and administration especially in Asia and Africa. This volume will be of great interest to and relevant for a wide audience interested in African development, global studies in land, and natural resource management.