This edited volume explores and dissects Africa's economic growth and sustainable development using an optimal conceptual model of the progressive continent's development up to and until 2030. Africa is studied not against the background of developed (OECD) and leading developing (e.g. BRICS) countries, but as a separate economy and as a self-sufficient region which follows its own priorities, and implements its own unique opportunities and vectors of growth and development. This first volume addresses the contemporary and topical issues of inclusive growth, digital modernisation, and sustainable development, recommending policy outcomes for the future.

Elena G. Popkova is Leading Researcher at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, and the President of the Institute of Scientific Communications, Russia. She has guest edited for a number of international journals and remains on the editorial board for several more journals. Bruno S. Sergi is Instructor of the Economics of Emerging Markets and the Political Economy of Russia and China at Harvard University, USA. He is also an Associate of the Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and teaches Political Economy and International Finance at the University of Messina. Sergi is the Series Editor of Cambridge Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets, the Series Editor of Entrepreneurship and Global Economic Growth, and an Associate Editor of The American Economist. Lubinda Haabazoka is Director at the University of Zambia's Graduate School of Business and President of the Economics Association of Zambia, Zambia. He served as Head of the Accounting and Finance Department at the Copperbelt University in Zambia from 2012 to 2016. Julia V. Ragulina is Head of the Chair of Compliance and Controlling at RUDN University, Russia. She is the author of more than 200 publications, including monographs on state control and audit, state and municipal management, and economics of municipal entities.