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Contents: The Global financial meltdown of 2008, Sub-Saharan African (SSA), and the way forward for sustainable economic growth and development -- Global private capital flows and development finance in Sub-Sahara Africa: exemplary performers, lessons for others, and strategies for global competitiveness in the 21st century -- Sources of global private capital flows: what Sub-Saharan Africa can do to attract, manage, and retain global private capital flows to finance economic growth and sustainable development -- Financial sector and economic development: How institutions, financial markets, and prudential oversight can be enhanced to accelerate economic growth and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Capital account, financial liberalization and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Eliminating structural impediments and maximizing the benefits of reforms to accelerate growth and sustainable development -- Sub-Saharan Africa and global trade: What Sub-Saharan Africa needs to do to maximize the benefits from global trade integration, increase economic growth and reduce poverty -- The strategic and competitive marketing of an economy: How to promote and sell an economy for foreign direct investment, create national wealth, and policy implications for Sub-Saharan African governments -- The East Asian Development Experience: Policy lessons, implications and recommendations for Sub-Saharan Africa Global Competitiveness -- Self-Management and personal leadership: Why and How highly effective people succeed in achieving their goals in their personal lives and in organizations and implications for Sub-Saharan African political and business leaders -- Leading in today's competitive Environment: How exemplary leaders, motivate, lead, and achieve organizational goals and create value and implications for Sub-Saharan African business leaders -- Organizational conflict: Strategy, leadership, resolution framework, and managerial implications for Sub-Saharan business leaders and managers -- Exemplary models of firm innovation: Strategy and leadership for the 21st century environment and lessons for Sub-Saharan African Business Leaders and Managers -- Competing on innovation: How exemplary innovators leverage their external environment to harness innovation and create value and lessons for Sub-Saharan African Business Leaders and Managers -- Entrepreneurial Venture Creation: The application of pattern identification theory to the entrepreneurial opportunity-identification process and implications for Sub-Saharan African Entrepreneurs -- Exemplary strategy for corporate competitiveness and wealth creation: Implications for Sub-Saharan African business leaders and managers.