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Africa's Burden: Labour Markets, Natural Resources, and the FDI Reliance-Rejectionn Paradox
2013
Social Science Research Network
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This paper will attempt to provide a comprehensive answer to the complex issue of development in sub-Saharan Africa by identifying an FDI reliance-rejection paradox emanating from the incompatibility between colonial legacies and Structural Adjustment Programmes. Since the 1980s, international financial institutions have imposed foreign direct investment as the main source to finance the development of SSA, while ignoring the two main structural issues inherited from colonialism -the
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2487873
fatcat:ss5at5jxpvdd7ehiofisxe3n54