Green Development and Finance in a Globalized Africa

Kobena T. Hanson is the Founder and CEO of Innovative Insights Group based in Accra, Ghana.  His research focuses on Africa, and pays attention to issues of capacity development, natural resource governance, regionalism, digitalization, knowledge management, disruptive technologies, and public policy.

Korbla P. Puplampu is Professor of Sociology at Grant MacEwan University, Canada. His teaching and research interests revolve around the following: globalization, digitalization and innovation in agriculture, capacity building, natural resources management and public policy and the politics of identity and belonging, diaspora and citizenship.

Peter Arthur is Professor of Political Science and International Development at Dalhousie University, Canada. His research interests focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, with emphasis on the contribution of small-scale enterprises, electoral politics in Ghana, capacity development and post-conflict reconstruction, the governance of oil, and natural resources management.

This edited volume explores green development and financing in a post-pandemic globalized Africa. It offers a theoretical and empirical investigation of green development and finance and analyzes their implications for critical issues in governance, domestic resource mobilization and resource exploration, climate change, the green economy, the influence of foreign aid and foreign direct investment, and the financing of SMEs and related industrial initiatives. This interdisciplinary book is structured around four primary themes: contemporary African development policy and global partnership initiatives; technology and domestic resource mobilization; green economy, agricultural, industrial and service dimensions; and the future trajectory of green development, drawing on proven cases and illustrations from both the Global North and South regarding green development and finance.