Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: development policy, agency and Africa in the post-2015 development agenda
- one The post-2015 development agenda: Building a global convergence on policy options
- two Debating post-2015 development-oriented reforms in Africa: agendas for action
- three Public diplomacy for developmental states: implementing the African Mining Vision
- four The role of gender in development: where do boys count?
- five Service-oriented government: the developmental state and service delivery in Africa after 2015 – are capacity indicators important?
- six Employment creation for youth in Africa: the role of extractive industries
- seven Financing the post-2015 development agenda: domestic revenue mobilisation in Africa
- eight Economic performance and social progress in Sub-Saharan Africa: the effect of least developed countries and fragile states
- nine From regional integration to regionalism in Africa: building capacities for the post-Millennium Development Goals agenda
- ten Reforming the Development Banks’ Country Policy and Institutional Assessment as an aid allocation tool: the case for country self-assessment
- eleven Development and sustainability in a warming world: measuring the impacts of climate change in Africa
- twelve African development through peace and security to sustainability
- thirteen African development, political economy and the road to Agenda 2063
- Notes
- Index
three - Public diplomacy for developmental states: implementing the African Mining Vision
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: development policy, agency and Africa in the post-2015 development agenda
- one The post-2015 development agenda: Building a global convergence on policy options
- two Debating post-2015 development-oriented reforms in Africa: agendas for action
- three Public diplomacy for developmental states: implementing the African Mining Vision
- four The role of gender in development: where do boys count?
- five Service-oriented government: the developmental state and service delivery in Africa after 2015 – are capacity indicators important?
- six Employment creation for youth in Africa: the role of extractive industries
- seven Financing the post-2015 development agenda: domestic revenue mobilisation in Africa
- eight Economic performance and social progress in Sub-Saharan Africa: the effect of least developed countries and fragile states
- nine From regional integration to regionalism in Africa: building capacities for the post-Millennium Development Goals agenda
- ten Reforming the Development Banks’ Country Policy and Institutional Assessment as an aid allocation tool: the case for country self-assessment
- eleven Development and sustainability in a warming world: measuring the impacts of climate change in Africa
- twelve African development through peace and security to sustainability
- thirteen African development, political economy and the road to Agenda 2063
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The second decade of the 21st century may be that of Africa's renaissance. As Africa's economic agencies, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) along with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union (AU) have come to advocate the adoption of policies leading towards developmental states, so the continent has articulated an African Mining Vision (AMV; see www.africaminingvision.org) (AMV, 2009, 2011a, 2011b) by contrast to other possible strategies for its natural resource governance (Florini and Dubash, 2011) from assorted global developmental, environmental, financial and industrial agencies.
This chapter begins to identify the background to this quite remarkable shift, analysing the prospects for its advocacy and adoption by emerging non-state as well as state actors by the end of this decade, both on and off the continent. In so doing, we relate to the emerging ‘agency’ versus ‘dependency’ debate (Brown, 2012; Brown and Harman, 2013; Harman and Brown, 2013; Lorenz and Rempe, 2013) as a correlate of the continent's recent unprecedented growth. This sets it apart from recent economic difficulties and setbacks in much of the established North of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), especially the Eurozone. In turn, this relates to and resonates with the latest UN Development Programme (UNDP) human development report for 2013 that articulates the rise of the global South, including the economic growth of the African countries South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda and Mauritius (UNDP, 2013).
This chapter juxtaposes two dominant interrelated strands in the political economy of today's continent: the impact of BRICS, especially China (Xing, 2013), and the return of a commodities boom, this time with a focus on energy and minerals, but in future, on food, land and water. Indeed, while these commodities have experienced a downturn over the last decade, the presented expected boom will occur over the coming decades. In turn, it notes the difficulties of the Euro's PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain), and the declining salience of the European Union (EU) symbolised by the stalling of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) project. A wide variety of novel alternative forms of finance are appearing from new donors and foundations, sovereign wealth funds, faith-based organisations (FBOs) and global taxes for global public goods/partnerships.
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- Development in AfricaRefocusing the Lens after the Millennium Development Goals, pp. 83 - 110Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2015