IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/revape/v47y2020i166p651-661.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Africa’s Blue Economy: potentials and challenges for more locally beneficial development

Author

Listed:
  • Eddy Akpomera

Abstract

Africa has massive potential for a vibrant ‘Blue Economy’: 70% of the countries in the continent have territorial coastlines and extensive kilometres of exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the sea that are still largely untapped for economic development. This analysis on sub-Saharan Africa’s positioning in the new framework of the Blue Economy, as well as the defining bottlenecks of maritime insecurity and weak governance, finds that Africa’s coastal states lack financial and technological capacity to harvest ocean assets, and are plagued by the corrupt tendencies of the political elite. There is a need to deploy strategic use of the states’ advantageous maritime resources for more locally beneficial development.

Suggested Citation

  • Eddy Akpomera, 2020. "Africa’s Blue Economy: potentials and challenges for more locally beneficial development," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(166), pages 651-661, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:47:y:2020:i:166:p:651-661
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2020.1853517
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/03056244.2020.1853517
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/03056244.2020.1853517?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Alejandro Vega-Muñoz & Guido Salazar-Sepulveda & Juan Felipe Espinosa-Cristia & Jonathan Sanhueza-Vergara, 2021. "How to Measure Environmental Performance in Ports," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-18, April.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:47:y:2020:i:166:p:651-661. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CREA20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.