Economic Alternatives for Sub-Saharan Africa

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Economic Alternatives for Sub-Saharan Africa

October 30, 2015

This paper addresses the problem of "poverty traps" caused by low levels of national savings in Sub-Saharan Africa. The investments of many of these countries are financed by external capital flows, especially ODA. More troubling is that they are not making progress on basing their investment on domestic resource mobilization.