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Economic Diversification in Africa: How and Why It Matters


Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Summary:  Many African countries have placed economic diversification high on the policy agenda, yet they first need to define what it means in their specific structural and socioeconomic contexts.
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For decades, economic diversification has been a policy priority for low- and middle-income economies. In the words of former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, “We know that economic diversification is good for growth. Diversification is also tremendously important for resilience.” Unfortunately, this goal continues to elude many African countries. In fact, the continent is home to eight of the world’s fifteen least economically diversified countries. This reality weakens the foundation of their economic transfomation and slows their pace of progress. It also ma ....

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East Asia's Paths to Industrialisation and Prosperity : Lessons for India and Other Latecomers in South Asia


New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xx + 295, ₹
895.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xxiv + 577, price not indicated.
Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years by Asian Development Bank, 
Manila: ADB, 2020 (ebook), http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/TCS190290.
 
The transformation of Asia from its status as the most impoverished region to the growth locomotive of the world economy within five decades is unprecedented and nothing short of a miracle. The achievement seems all the more profound when juxtaposed with a very pessimistic outlook of Asia’s deve­lopment prospects made by Gunnar Myrdal in his three-volume tome 
Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. ....

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