03061namaa2200457uu 4500 doab123128 oapen 20260305123954.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 231121s2023 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 9781003185062 9781003185062 9781032027609 9781032027616 10.4324/9781003185062 doi oapen oapen eng dc GTF bicssc JP bicssc Olayele, Fred edt Sustainable Development in Post-Pandemic Africa Effective Strategies for Resource Mobilization Taylor & Francis 2023 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star With both domestic and external financing expected to dry up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book argues that there is a need for fresh ideas and new strategies for achieving sustainable development in Africa. In addition to triggering the most severe recession in nearly a century, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global value chains, causing unprecedented damage to healthcare systems, economies, and well-being, hitting the world's most vulnerable people the hardest. Even before the pandemic, Africa was suffering from the effects of low commodity prices, sluggish GDP growth, high debt levels, low levels of domestic savings, and weak private capital inflows. This book argues that now, as the continent emerges from the current crisis, it will be important to reconfigure current financing sources under a forward-looking framework that incorporates other non-traditional financing tools and mechanisms such as public-private partnerships, sovereign wealth funds, gender lens investing, new growth drivers, and emerging and disruptive technologies. Finally, the book concludes by adopting a sectoral approach and examining the real economy impacts of new growth drivers such as agriculture value chains, industrialization, tourism, and the blue economy. Drawing on a range of original research as well as insights from practice, this book will be a useful guide for Global Development and African Studies researchers, as well as for policy makers, investors, finance specialists, and global business practitioners and entrepreneurs. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Development studies bicssc Politics & government bicssc Africa, debt, financing sources, industrialization, sustainable development, tourism Olayele, Fred oth Samy, Yiagadeesen edt Samy, Yiagadeesen oth DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/123128 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 93262 93262