SDGs, Transformation, and Quality Growth: Insights from International Cooperation

This volume shows that the enhancement of endowments, transformation, and quality growth do not occur automatically. These processes are normally endogenous; however, they need to be catalyzed or facilitated by well-designed strategies and effective approaches to implement such strategies. Case studies provide insights into such strategies, approaches, and the main actors involved in the transformation process.

This volume studies the relationship between essential endowments, transformation, and quality growth (with its attributes intimately related to SDGs) from three different angles to identify appropriate and promising strategies. First, it discusses strategies for enhancement of essential endowments and strategies to trigger and catalyze transformation considering such endowments. Second, it focuses on outstanding cases of transformation to analyze how essential endowments and other crucial factors interact in the transformation process. Third, it examines the case of sub-Saharan Africa, where jobs and inclusivity have not necessarily accompanied the growth of GDP as expected.

The book further explains effective approaches toward quality growth, such as the creation of learning societies, land readjustment for urbanization to generate growth, environmental sustainability, and disaster risk management.

The lessons illustrated in this volume as learned by particular counties may not be directly applicable to other societies. However, they may be efficacious in helping individual nations establish their own quality growth strategies to address specific challenges.

The author Hosono Akio is a senior research advisor at JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Research Institute).
This book is an outcome of a research project entitled “Study on Quality Growth” conducted at JICA Ogata Research Institute.

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