Can the SDGs Promote Structural Transformation in Africa? An Empirical Analysis

Armah, Bartholomew; Baek, Seung Jin

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“…The first important insight gained from the mapping analysis is that the structural transformation in many African countries can benefit from an integrated approach to development planning, consistent with the global normative sustainable development framework. Africa's development planning capacity, however, appears substantially weak; several African countries are struggling to mainstream development priorities and policies in their national planning frameworks (ECA, 2016;Armah and Baek, 2015;. This implies a need to break institutional silos, thus strengthening sectoral (i.e.…”

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“…Net ODA disbursements from member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development-Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) to Africa increased from US$10.4 billion in 2000 to US$29.2 billion in 2014. As a share of total OECD-DAC disbursements, Africa received between 34 to 49 per cent during this period, or about 43 per cent on average (Armah and Baek, 2015).…”

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“…9 It increased from US$16 billion in 2011 to US$40 billion in 2016 (UNCTAD, 2018b). However, China's capital-intensive investment (or sometimes speculative investments) in African extractive industries reflects a temporary advantage in the trade balance of a few African oil-Although this persistent debt burden has partly been offset by global debt relief initiatives, including Heavily Indebted Poor Countries and Multilateral Debt Relief, these cannot by themselves ensure sustainable debt management (Armah and Baek, 2015).…”

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Viewpoint: Cooperating in Africa’s sustainable structural transformation: policymaking capacity and the role of emerging economies

Baek

2019

International Development Planning Review

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Most African countries today are pursuing one or both of the following policy agendas as they strive towards a sustainable transition: 1) a global normative agenda moving away from traditional patterns of economic growth and toward a greater emphasis on sustainable development (2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development), and 2) a regional contextdependent development policy agenda that entails the achievement of a more radical structural transformation (Agenda 2063). Having identified these two overlapping policy agendas, both of which are aimed at moving away from an exclusive focus on economic growth, this article explores these development viewpoints with particular focus on capacity building in policymaking (the non-financial aspect), and the need for these to be further supported by more aggressive global partnership efforts (the financial aspect). By doing so, we are able to examine some transformation experiences in Africa as well as policy options that envisage greater inclusiveness, equality and sustainability.

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Baek

2019

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“…Among the problems Somaliland Education Program facing are the issue of the educational goals mismatch with the direction of the country's economic development. In case of Somaliland, education calls for the expansion of the country's supply of SDGs provisions, with a specific focus on industrial development and STI [15]. In spite of the number of development initiatives within SNDGs, yet increasingly all universities in Somaliland are engaged in transmissive education without any accreditation and standards.…”

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Strategic Shift from Transmissive to Transformative Higher Education for Sustainable Development

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Subari²,

Baqutayan³

2019

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Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a global initiative towards transforming education for sustainability. The integration of SD into the education portfolio is considered to be an important approach that ensures strategic alignment of higher education with SDGs. A document review was used to identify and discuss the difference between transmissive and transformative education in relation to SDGs and in the context of Somali education. In this trajectory, it is expected that the concept of ‘‘transformative education is likely to become more common to meet the emerging social, economic and environmental issues, yet practical challenges remain in Somaliland HE sector. The roadmap towards addressing transformative education for sustainability is not included in the Somaliland national portfolios; particularly ESD has not been presented. In this regard, this paper proposed a generic framework that spotlights the integration of HEIs and the national development goals (NDGs) in Somaliland. Meanwhile, developed and developing countries are prioritizing structural transformation in their HEIs that are tailored to national and regional development programs. Consistent with the Rio + 20 outcomes, the authors analyzed the concept of the ‘‘sustainable university’’ and identified the fact that it is practically divided into three interrelated and complementary categories, namely social-, environmental-, and economic-oriented university in pursuit of actualizing SD. The paper recommends major reforms in the education sector including availing investment portfolios for R&D, renovation of education goals and transforming universities for sustainability

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Structural transformation—Income inequality nexus in Africa: Does the Developer's dilemma hold?

Ibrahim

Aluko

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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This article examines the developer's dilemma—a seeming quandary emerging from the fact that developing countries simultaneously pursue two different developmental goals: (a) seeking economic development through structural transformation and (b) reducing income inequality. However, the proclivity of increasing income inequality while pursuing structural transformation is often referred to as the developer's dilemma. This study investigates for the presence of this dilemma in Africa using sample splitting and threshold estimation technique. While we find support for the existence of a developer's dilemma, suggesting that structural transformation induces income inequality, the income inequality‐widening effect is disproportionate.

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Can the SDGs Promote Structural Transformation in Africa? An Empirical Analysis

Cited by 17 publications

References 32 publications

Viewpoint: Cooperating in Africa’s sustainable structural transformation: policymaking capacity and the role of emerging economies

Viewpoint: Cooperating in Africa’s sustainable structural transformation: policymaking capacity and the role of emerging economies

Strategic Shift from Transmissive to Transformative Higher Education for Sustainable Development

Structural transformation—Income inequality nexus in Africa: Does the Developer's dilemma hold?

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