Aid, structural change and the private sector in Africa

Arbeitspapier

This paper argues that official development assistance (foreign aid) is partly responsible for the lack of structural change in Africa. Africa's development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical constraints to private investment, infrastructure and skills, focusing instead on easily understood, but potentially low impact regulatory reforms. A new aid strategy, one that catalyses private investment in high value added sectors, is needed. Support for strategic interventions to push non-traditional exports, support industrial agglomerations, build firm capabilities, and strengthen regional integration should anchor a new donor agenda to create good jobs and sustain growth.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-484-3
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2012/21

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology ; International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations ; Industrial Policy ; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
• Thema: aid ; structural change ; private sector ; industry ; exports ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Strukturwandel ; Armut ; Privatwirtschaft ; Industrialisierung ; Investitionsklima ; Afrika

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Page, John
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/80929
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ