Rethinking Growth in the Global South: Africa’s Path to Structural Transformation

In this Atlantic Dialogues episode of the Policy Center for the New South podcast, Professor Carlos Lopes discusses how African growth strategies can be redesigned to deliver real structural transformation. The conversation examines how shifting value chains, geopolitics, and decarbonization pressures are changing the rules of industrialization for latecomers. It highlights alternatives to aid-dependent models, the need to mobilize domestic savings and long-term financing, and stronger leverage over natural resources through value addition and new partnership terms.