Evidence abounds to support the view that economy of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been growing in recent times, but there is considerable concern that the growth has not been accompanied by economic transformation. The lack of economic transformation is traceable to low level of investment in...

Most sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have been recording considerable growth since the beginning of this century compared to the dismal and unstable growth experience of the 1980s and 1990s. In 2004, for instance, sub-Saharan Africa recorded a per capital gdp growth rate of about 2.6% but...