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Focusing on the institutional foundations, this book explores the enduring disparities in economic performance among firms, industries, and countries in Africa. It emphasizes the critical role institutions play in fostering technological advancement, highlighting how such progress is essential for enhancing competitiveness on a global scale. Through this lens, the book provides insights into the interplay between institutions and economic development in the African context.

Focusing on sustainable economic development, this book examines the role of economic diversification through a comparative analysis of experiences in Asia and Africa. It offers insights into how different regions have approached diversification and its impact on development, providing a systemic perspective on strategies for fostering economic resilience and growth.

Focusing on structural change dynamics in Africa, this book explores how manufacturing productivity growth influences job creation, living standards, and the efficiency of urban areas. It delves into the relationships between industrialization trends, urbanization rates, and their effects on income growth and employment. By analyzing Africa's diversified economies, the study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of sustainable development in the continent, highlighting pathways that can benefit the majority.

This book examines long-term structural changes and the broad impact on economic development in regional comparative perspectives. The book analyzes data across Africa, Asia and Latin America. It looks at key variables of productivity growth, industrialization, poverty, urbanization, and employment. This book is concerned with understanding structural change dynamics and how it affects job creation, living standards, and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefits majority of citizens. With empirical evidence from a selected number of developing countries including China, India, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa, the book attempts to present the considerable structural changes of these countries over the last few decades. It highlights that growth without the expected job creation is one of the distinct features of growth in emerging and developing countries. It suggests that countries may well record economic growth, whether through within sector productivity increase or through structural change, but this may not necessarily lead to employment, an important concern for long-term development.