In recent years several African countries have embarked on reforms aimed at structurally transforming their economies to minimize their dependence on primary exports and generate greater employment opportunities through value-addition. Meanwhile, the recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable...

The central aim of this chapter is to explore the three most recent influential development paradigm shifts to reconstruct a country's modernisation process, shifts that are aggressive globalisation forces, normative sustainable development ideas, and radical technological changes. The...