Sustainable Industrialization in Africa

Padmashree Gehl Sampath is Chief of the Technology and Innovation Report Series Taskforce at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to this, she has worked as a Researcher at the United Nations University-MERIT and as Assistant Professor on International Development and Innovation at the Open University, UK. Her research interests include trade, industrial policy and development issues, and has published several journal publications, book chapters and four authored books. She holds a Bellagio Residency and an award from the Rotary International in India. Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka is Director of the Monitoring and Research Division, UN-HABITAT, Kenya; a Professorial Fellow in Innovation and Development, United Nations University- MERIT, The Netherlands and Visiting Professor of Innovation and Development at The Open University, UK. His research interests are in Science Technology, Innovation Policy and Systems in Late Development, Innovation Systems in Industry Small and Medium Enterprises, industrial clusters in Developing Countries and latecomer Industrialization and Economic Development. He has published several books in addition to journal articles and other works. He is a board member of several academic journals and programmes including the STEPS-IDS, Sussex, UK. He is a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering.

• 1. Sustainable Industrialization in Africa: Towards a New Development Agenda; Padmashree Gehl Sampath2. Revisiting the MDGs in an African Perspective: Lessons for the Sustainable Development Goals; Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and Olumayokun Somerukun3. Challenges and Opportunities to Structural Transformation: Africa's Service Sector; Padmashree Gehl Sampath and Donatus Ayitey4. Linkage dynamics and natural resources: Diversification and Catch-up; David Kaplan5. External Opportunities, Innovation and Industrial Growth: The case of GVCs in Africa; Padmashree Gehl Sampath and Donatus Ayitey6. Growth and Structural Change in Africa: Development Strategies for the Learning Economy; Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Rasmus Lema7. Using Industrialization to Raise Urban Living Standards; Oyebanke Oyeyinka8. Sustainable Development and Inequality of Opportunity in Africa; Mayokun Soremekun, Oyebanke Oyeyinka and Dominique Haughton