2014 African Transformation Report - Growth with Depth
- Author:
- African Center for Economic Transformation
- Publisher:
- African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)
- Publication Date:
- 24 November 2014
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This first African Transformation Report draws on our three-year research program of country, sector, and thematic studies to offer analyses and lessons that can be tailored to each country's endowments, constraints, and opportunities. In 2010, working with local think tanks, we began to assess the transformation records, platforms, and prospects of 15 Sub-Saharan countries. Brief summaries of those studies appear in the country transformation profiles in an annex to the report. Working with African and international economists, our staff also produced cross-cutting studies of themes important to Africa's transformation. And working with African consultants, we produced studies of sectors holding promise for adding value to Africa's agricultural and manufactured products. In 2011 we invited 30 leading thinkers on African development to come to Rockefeller's conference center in Bellagio and to provide their perspectives on the challenges of economic transformation. Attending were African ministers and business leaders, academics from prominent think tanks, senior officials from multilateral development banks, and development specialists from Asia and Latin America. The workshop drew lessons from outside Africa to help us make our approach more responsive to the needs of African policymakers. It also explored possible networks for collaboration in pursuing Africa's transformation agenda...
