Bringing Forth Prosperity: Capacity Innovation in Africa ( River Publishers Series in Multi Business Model Innovation, Technologies and Sustainable Business )

Publication series ：River Publishers Series in Multi Business Model Innovation, Technologies and Sustainable Business

Author： Bobo Benjamin  

Publisher： River Publishers‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9788793519282

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9788793519299

Subject： F1 The World Economic Profiles , Economic History , Economic Geography

Keyword： 世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理

Language： ENG

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Path to Capacity Innovation: An Africa-MNC Strategic Alliance, a policy framework is advanced proposing a strategic alliance between African countries -represented by NEPAD- and the multinational corporation with input from the NGO and couched upon an NEPAD-MNC-NGO cross-fertilizing integrative structure. Capacity innovation is the key to Africa's transformation: with the appropriate catalysts, innovation and transformation are but a matter of time in gestation. The first of two major catalysts necessary to prompting this change so long sought by Africans came at the adoption of the New Partnership for Africa's Development. It is one of the most profound collaborations of African Heads of State. The second catalyst is proposed in this work in the form of the multinational corporation as change agent for the innovation process working in alliance with NEPAD as Africa's spokesperson for innovation. The policy framework for African capacity innovation is the material product along with discourse for redress of corruption and security policy narrative for protecting the assets of multinational corporations. Bringing Forth Prosperity: Capacity Innovation in Africa questions capital theory as a development construct and an appropriate platform upon which sustained capacity innovation in Africa may emerge; explores Africa's road to modernity in the context of selected development constructs and assesses capacity innovation from a top down-bottom up perspective purposely to serve a

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Front Cover

Half Title Page

RIVER PUBLISHERS SERIES IN MULTI BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGIES AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS

Title Page - Bringing Forth Prosperity: Capacity Innovation in Africa

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Exhibits

Chapter - 1 Introduction

1.1 Direction and Purpose of Book

1.2 Need and Approach

1.3 Objectives

1.4 Undertaking the Objectives

Chapter 2 - Capital Theory and Development: Has Africa Been Overlooked?

2.1 Capital Theory and Government Corruption

2.1.1 Government Institutions

2.1.2 Give-and-Take

2.1.3 The Government Apparatus: Governmental Decree

2.1.4 Constitution

2.1.5 Rule of Law

2.1.6 Bodies of Government

2.1.7 So – Has Africa Been Overlooked?

Chapter 3 - Towards an Analytical Policy Framework for Assessing Capacity Innovation: A Standalone African Perspective*

3.1 Africa’s Predicament

3.2 Capacity Innovation’s Purpose: What It Needs to Accomplish

3.2.1 What’s Missing – A Look at the Core Challenges

3.2.2 Comparative Advantage

3.2.3 Mini-States and Critical Mass

3.2.4 Price-Takers

3.2.5 Economic Complementarity

3.2.6 Communication

3.2.7 Collective Self-Reliance – Economic Integration

3.2.8 Currency

3.2.9 Governance

3.2.10 The Capacity Innovation Endgame

3.2.11 What Might Be Done:The Path to Capacity Innovation

3.2.12 Closing Comments

Chapter 4 - Top Down–Bottom Up Capacity Innovation

4.1 Integrative Approach:Top Down–Bottom Up Convergence

4.2 Capacity Innovation for Prosperity:Top Down–Bottom Up with a Twist

4.3 Land Tenure, Property Rights and Ownership

Chapter 5 - The Country Capacity ID

5.1 Population

5.2 Resources of Commercial Importance

5.3 Literacy

5.4 Human Development Index

5.5 Capital Formation

5.6 Infrastructure

5.7 Institutions – Rule of Law

5.8 Citizen Participation

5.9 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

5.10 Military

5.11 Closing Observations

Chapter 6 - Africa-MNC Strategic Alliance

6.1 Opportunistic Behavior

6.2 Opportunistic Balancing

6.3 Developing a Mindset

6.4 The Corruption Dilemma

6.5 Corruption, Human Rights Violations and Crimes Against Humanity: Intersecting Acts

6.6 Interdicting Corruption:The Trump Card

Chapter 7 - Path to Capacity Innovation: An Africa-MNC Strategic Alliance

7.1 The Linking Process

7.1.1 Institutional Component

7.1.2 Market Component

7.1.3 World Bank/IMF

7.1.4 Non-Governmental Organizations

7.1.5 Foreign Direct Investment

7.1.6 Created Comparative Advantage

7.1.7 Regional Integration

7.1.8 Economic Complementarity

7.1.9 Price-Maker Status

7.1.10 Integrated Telecommunications

7.1.11 Infrastructure Development

7.1.12 NEPAD-MNC-NGO Convergence

7.1.13 Critical Mass

7.1.14 Transfer Pricing/Trade Misinvoicing

7.1.15 Foreign Direct Investment Fund

7.1.16 NEPAD Bank

7.1.17 African Security Force-FDI Protection

7.1.18 Country Capacity ID

7.1.19 Organizational Tie-in

7.1.20 Unlocking the Lock – Endgame

Chapter 8 - African Continental Security Apparatus: Accommodating FDI

8.1 Special Fund

Chapter 9 - Epilogue

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

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