Overview
- 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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Table of contents (42 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Agriculture Sector
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Services Sector
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors
Editors: Evelyn F. Wamboye, Bichaka Fayissa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75556-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75555-3Published: 28 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75558-4Published: 28 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75556-0Published: 27 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVIII, 1118
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 118 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Economics, Development Economics, International Economics, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general