Table Of ContentGovernance for
Structural Transformation
in Africa
Edited by
Adam B. Elhiraika
Gamal Ibrahim
William Davis
Governance for Structural Transformation
in Africa
Adam B. Elhiraika · Gamal Ibrahim
William Davis
Editors
Governance
for Structural
Transformation
in Africa
Editors
Adam B. Elhiraika William Davis
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Gamal Ibrahim
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Contents
1 Overview 1
Adam B. Elhiraika, Gamal Ibrahim and William Davis
2 Institutional and Governance Weaknesses and African
Transformation 11
Tafah Edokat and Aloysius Njong
3 Sub-Regional Perspectives on Structural Change 37
Pedro M. G. Martins
4 Economic Regulation and Employment Intensity
of Output Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa 101
Abidemi C. Adegboye, Monday I. Egharevba and Joel Edafe
5 Governance in the Mineral Dependent Economy:
The Case of Botswana 145
Ita M. Mannathoko
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6 Can Export Promotion Agencies Stem the
Deindustrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa? 189
Isaac Marcelin and Malokele Nanivazo
7 Exploring Multidimensional Fiscal Incentives
and Firms’ Productivity in a Developing Country 221
Rapuluchukwu Efobi Uchenna, Belmondo Tanankem Voufo
and Beecroft Ibukun
8 Food and Agriculture Global Value Chains:
New Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 251
Jean Balié, Davide Del Prete, Emiliano Magrini,
Pierluigi Montalbano and Silvia Nenci
9 The Role of Regional Trade Integration and Governance
in Structural Transformation: Evidence from ECOWAS
Trade Bloc 277
Abiodun Surajudeen Bankole and Musibau Adekunle Oladapo
Index 315
Notes on Contributors
Abidemi C. Adegboye is currently a Ph.D. student in Development
Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Benin,
Benin City Nigeria. He is also a lecturer in Economics at Adeyemi
College of Education. His areas of interest include labour markets in
SSA and fiscal policy.
Jean Balié is Senior Economist in the FAO Agricultural Development
Economics Division, where he manages the Monitoring and Analyzing
Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) Programme. He has over
20 years of experience in policy analysis in developing and developed
countries. He also worked for the French Ministry of Agriculture on
bilateral cooperation and international trade negotiations. He wrote sev-
eral papers, articles and reports on topics such as policy processes, policy
monitoring, commodity chain analysis and price volatility.
Abiodun Surajudeen Bankole is Professor of Economics in the
Department of Economics at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
William Davis is Economic Affairs Officer working with the
Macroeconomic and Governance Division of the Economic Commission
for Africa.
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Davide Del Prete is Economist at the FAO Agricultural Development
Economics Division, where he is currently working at the Monitoring
and Analyzing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) Programme
and as an Assistant Professor at University of Naples Parthenope. He
holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Sapienza University of Roma, Italy.
His research interests cover: international trade, value chains, applied
economics and micro-econometrics. He has experience consulting
with the International Trade Center (UN), UNCTAD and the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Joel Edafe is a Ph.D. student in Economics at the Benson Idahosa
University, Benin City Nigeria. He is also a lecturer in Economics at
Adeyemi College of Education. His area of interest is development
finance and household welfare.
Tafah Edokat is Professor of Economics and former Vice-Chancellor
of The University of Bamenda.
Rapuluchukwu Efobi Uchenna holds a Ph.D. from the College of
Business and Social Sciences Covenant University with a special inter-
est in Development Economics. He is a Hewlett Fellow and is inter-
ested in issues on household and firm outcomes, while considering
sustainability.
Monday I. Egharevba is a Ph.D. student in Economics at the Benson
Idahosa University, Benin City, Nigeria. He focuses on demographic
implications of government policies. He is also a lecturer in Economics
at Adeyemi College of Education.
Dr. Adam B. Elhiraika is the Director of the Macroeconomic and
Governance Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa (ECA). He directly supervises ECA work on macroeconomics,
development planning and economic governance and public finance,
including key flagship publications: The Economic Report on Africa,
the African Governance Report and the Sustainable Development
Report. Before joining the United Nations, Elhiraika served as
Economist at the Islamic Development Bank (Saudi Arabia), Associate
Professor of Economics at the United Arab Emirates University (UAE),
Notes on Contributors ix
Senior Lecturer at the University of Fort Hare (South Africa) and the
University of Swaziland (Swaziland) and Assistant Professor at the
University of Gezira (Sudan). In addition to the contribution to official
reports and publications, he has published extensively in internationally
refereed journals, books and monographs.
Gamal Ibrahim leads the technical work on public finance and illicit
financial flows in ECA and has been a member of the secretariat of the
High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa since its inception
in 2011. Dr. Ibrahim has an M.A. in Development Economics from the
University of Leeds, UK and a Ph.D. from Nottingham Trent University,
UK. He taught Economics at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham
Trent University before joining the Arab Monetary Fund in Abu Dhabi
as a Senior Economist. In 2010, he joined the United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa. Dr. Ibrahim has published widely in books and
leading economics Journals. His main field of specialisation is institu-
tional economics with a particular emphasis on economic governance,
finance for development, illicit financial flows and private sector develop-
ment. He served as a resource person for the African Economic Research
Consortium (AERC) research and training programmes. Gamal is a
research fellow for the Economic Research Forum (ERF).
Beecroft Ibukun is Economics Researcher and Faculty at Covenant
University (CU), Nigeria. Her research is centred on Fiscal Studies
and Economic Development in Africa, and she has collaborated with
a number of scholars in her field on various grants and award-winning
research projects.
Emiliano Magrini is Economist at the FAO Agricultural Development
Economics Division, where he is currently working in the Monitoring
and Analyzing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) Programme.
His research focuses on agricultural and food value chain analysis in
Sub-Saharan Africa, with particular interest in the impact of domestic
and trade policies on price fluctuations, production choices and farm-
ers’ poverty and food security. He obtained a Ph.D. in Development
Economics from the University of Rome “Sapienza” and a Masters in
International Economics from the University of Sussex.
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Ita M. Mannathoko is an independent researcher formerly of the Bank
of Botswana, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Isaac Marcelin has taught finance for the past 8 years at University
of Maryland Eastern Shore, served as the Senior Advisor in Finance to
two Prime Ministers; has published in top-tier journals and conducted
M&E of public or social programs along with authoring policy briefs.
Pedro M. G. Martins is Senior Economist for Timor-Leste at the
World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, Pedro had been an
Economic Affairs Officer at the Economic Commission for Africa,
a Research Specialist at UNDP’s Human Development Report Office
and a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (UK). He
holds an M.A. in Development Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics,
both from the University of Sussex (UK).
Pierluigi Montalbano is Associate Professor of International
Economic Policy, Chair Holder of the Jean Monnet Chair on “EU
Trade Policy for Development” and Associate Faculty at the University
of Sussex (UK). He holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods from
Sapienza University and in Economics from Sussex University. He is
author and co-author of several articles and scientific publications in
peer-reviewed international journals and an invited speaker at sev-
eral national and international conferences and seminars. His research
interests lie at the crossover between International Economics and
Development.
Malokele Nanivazo is a visiting scholar at the University of Kansas.
She worked as a research fellow at the United Nations University—
World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-
WIDER). She contributed to several projects on the roots causes
of conflicts for the Economic Commission for Africa of the United
Nations.
Silvia Nenci is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the Roma
Tre University, Italy. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Sapienza
University of Rome. Her research interests focus on international
trade and development, trade policy, global value chains and network
