{"product_id":"9780998479620","title":"Africa in Transition: A New Way of Looking at Progress in the Region","description":"\u003cp\u003e“In this very interesting and illuminating book, Otobo makes a significant contribution to improving our understanding of Africa's development performance. He offers a new way of looking at the development prospects of individual countries by focusing on the three structural constraints which have impeded their past performance and still cast a long shadow over their development prospects. This book should be a required reading by African policy makers and students of African affairs.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003eLalla Aicha Ben-Barka, \u003c\/strong\u003eformer Assistant Director-General for Africa at UNESCO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an unreservedly compelling, insightful and innovative interpretation of progress by African countries. Otobo has drawn on his very rich and diverse experience in working on African issues in his country and at the United Nations to paint a vivid picture of the challenges that African countries face and what must be done to overcome them. The range and depth of issues covered in this book make it a must read for leaders at the regional, national and subnational levels.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e–Abdalla Hamdok, \u003c\/strong\u003eActing Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpts from the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfrican countries have made considerable progress in the past decade and \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ehalf. However, conventional analyses of progress or lack thereof in Africa have \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003efocused on either political or economic trends separately. Seldom are the two \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ebrought together, and even much rarer is the case when the political stability, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eorganisational capacity, and scientific and technological dimensions are \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ecombined to offer a comprehensive rather than a fractal view of the prospects \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eof individual African countries. By integrating the stability, organisational, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eand scientific and technological perspectives, it is possible to gain considerable \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003einsight into the factors that will shape the futures of African countries and, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003emore importantly, present a composite picture of the progress of each country. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuch an approach will obviate the wild swings between “Hopeless Africa”, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Africa Rising”, and “Africa Reeling” narratives. Thus, the triple transitions \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eand triple deficits frameworks, examined in this book, represent a new way of \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003elooking at progress in the region, inasmuch as they help to highlight the \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ecomplexity and diversity of the performance of the countries in the region.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AMV Publishing Services","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49785657065712,"sku":"9780998479620","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998479620","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}