Supporting Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development in Africa - Volume II Transforming Infrastructure Development

This edited volume explores and dissects Africa's economic growth and sustainable development using an optimal conceptual model of the progressive continent's development up to and until 2030. Africa is studied not against the background of developed (OECD) and leading developing (e.g. BRICS) countries, but as a separate economy and as a self-sufficient region which follows its own priorities, and implements its own unique opportunities and vectors of growth and development. This volume addresses the contemporary and topical issues of inclusive growth, digital modernisation, and sustainable development, recommending policy outcomes for the future.

Part I: Transforming Infrastructure Development

Chapter 1. Corporate Governance in South Africa: A Comparative Aspect

Chapter 2. Hi-Tech Development of Modern Africa: Opportunities and Barriers

Chapter 3. Information Society, Telecommunication Infrastructure, and Digital Entrepreneurship in Modern Africa

Chapter 4. The Impact of Obsolescence on Public-Private Partnership Projects in South Africa

Chapter 5. The Strategic Benefits of Innovation Adoption in Construction Consultancy Firms: The Role of Quantity Surveyors

Chapter 6. Factors Affecting Effective Infrastructure Service Delivery in Zambia’s Local Authorities: A Case of Eastern Province

Chapter 7. Adoption Level of FAO’s Valuation Guidelines in Nigeria

Chapter 8. An Empirical Analysis of Transportation Infrastructure Feasibility Study Considerations

Chapter 9. Smart Tourism for Enhancing Tourism Experience: Prospects and Challenges for Africa

Part II: Inclusive Economic Growth

Chapter 10. Women’s Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Livelihoods in Lusaka Urban

Chapter 11. African Union Outer Space Program: Chances and Challenges

Chapter 12. The Malabo Protocol on African Criminal Court: Challenges and Perspectives

Chapter 13. Integration in Africa: International Legal Competence of the East African Community in the Economic, Social and Cultural Sphere

Part III: Economic Diversification and Integration

Chapter 14. Framework for Attracting Traffic Back to the Railways in Zambia

Chapter 15. Planning and Designing Standard of Rural Road Construction in Lusaka Province: An Exploratory Study

Chapter 16. International Listed Real Estate Market Portfolio Diversification in BRICS

Chapter 17. Migration Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa-Domestic and International Socio-Politico-Economic Repercussions: Implications for Zambia

Chapter 18. Scenario of Modern Africa’s Development Until 2030 with Preservation of the Pre-Digital Technological Mode

Chapter 19. Africa 4.0 as a Perspective Scenario for Neo-Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century: Global Competitiveness and Sustainable Development

Chapter 20. Africa 4.0 as the Optimal Model of Development of the African Region of the Global Economic System Until 2030

Chapter 21. Future Perspectives of Inclusive Growth of the African Economy

Elena G. Popkova is Leading Researcher at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, and the President of the Institute of Scientific Communications, Russia. She has guest edited for a number of international journals and remains on the editorial board for several more journals.

Bruno S. Sergi is Instructor of the Economics of Emerging Markets and the Political Economy of Russia and China at Harvard University, USA. He is also an Associate of the Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and teaches Political Economy and International Finance at the University of Messina. Sergi is the Series Editor of Cambridge Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets, the Series Editor of Entrepreneurship and Global Economic Growth, and an Associate Editor of The American Economist. 

Lubinda Haabazoka is Director at the University of Zambia’s Graduate School of Business and President of the Economics Association of Zambia, Zambia. He served as Head of the Accounting and Finance Department at the Copperbelt University in Zambia from 2012 to 2016.

Julia V. Ragulina is Head of the Chair of Compliance and Controlling at RUDN University, Russia. She is the author of more than 200 publications, including monographs on state control and audit, state and municipal management, and economics of municipal entities.