African Development African Transformation: How Institutions Shape Development Strategy

Africa is home to many of the worlds fastest-growing economies. This powerful book traces new continental institutions for development and their capacity to affect economic growth regional integration and international cooperation in Africa. It also assesses Africas ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Unions Agenda 2063. As the continents most ambitious development initiative since independence the African Union Development Agency (or AUDA previously known as the New Partnership for Africas Development or NEPAD) provides an excellent case study for examining how an African-based continent-wide development institution emerged. Inspired by the ideas of Pan-Africanism and the African renaissance NEPAD was created to bring Africa into the globalizing world to close the gap between developing and developed countries to enhance economic growth and to eradicate poverty. Almost two decades after NEPADs creation and given its transformation into AUDA this brilliant book examines AUDAs role in achieving these goals.