This book brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa. Offering both diagnoses and prescriptions, The Quality of Growth in Africa helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into improvements in well-being.

Bringing together prominent international contributors to consider a range of questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa, this text offers both diagnoses and prescriptions, and helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into improvements in well-being.

African countries have pursued economic reforms to attain more rapid growth in the last three decades. They have also been driven to reduce poverty and income inequality. This book provides good explanations of the countries' varied successes. It is an excellent indication of the challenges that Africa faces as it considers structural transformation.