African Development, African Transformation

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.