Download or read book Economic Development in Africa Report 2012 written by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides concrete policy recommendations for African policy makers and their development partners on how to promote sustainable structural transformation in Africa, meaning a sustainable structural transformation that integrates the relative decoupling of natural resource use and environmental impacts from the growth process. The Report also discusses why a strategy of sustainable structural transformation is important for Africa, how strategic priorities can be identified and the role of the national State and the international community in such a strategy.