Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/103008 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/093
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Although development generally refers to a broad concept, the quest for development in Sub-Saharan Africa has been biased by ideological considerations which made abstraction of local conditions and people's aspirations. The prevalent development models have used increased national income as a sufficient statistics for broad-based development. This paper argues for an alternative and a more comprehensive and reflexive development framework that harnesses local and global knowledge and advocates generalized balanced growth and structural transformation to move Sub-Saharan African countries towards self-reliance - their collectively defined aspirational goal. Analytically, it shows that the potential development outcomes of the region under such an endogenous framework would be superior to the results achieved under the prevailing development models.
Subjects: 
regional integration
regulatory reform
competitiveness
Africa
JEL: 
B10
N17
O11
O41
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-814-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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