Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development

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Shantayanan Devarajan

World Bank Middle East and North Africa Region

William Easterly

New York University - Department of Economics

Howard Pack

University of Pennsylvania - Management Department; University of Pennsylvania - Business & Public Policy Department

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Date Written: October 2002

Abstract

While many analysts decry the lack of sufficient investment in Africa, we find no evidence that private and public investment are productive, either in Africa as a whole (unless Botswana is included in the sample), or in the manufacturing sector in Tanzania. In this restricted sense, inadequate investment is not the major obstacle to African economic development.

Keywords: Africa, economic development, investment

Suggested Citation

Devarajan, Shantayanan and Easterly, William and Pack, Howard, Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development (October 2002). Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 13, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1106287 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1106287

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