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@MISC{Berthélemy99emergingafrica:,
author = {Jean-claude Berthélemy and Ludvig Söderling},
title = {Emerging Africa: is it possible?},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
This paper attempts to address the question whether, and under which conditions, a group of African countries will be able to start emerging at the beginning of the next century. Our assumption is that, although sub-Saharan Africa as a whole cannot yet be considered as a promising candidate for economic emergence, such a process could be initiated in a limited number of countries within the next two decades. Under the right circumstances, this may entail contagion of economic progress to the rest of the continent. The experience of East Asia in the past three to four decades describes rather well such a step-by-step process of economic catch-up of a whole region, starting from a situation of underdevelopment that was considered as desperate in the 1950s.
