John, Whalley; Aaron, Weisbrod - In: Global Economy Journal 12 (2012) 4, pp. 1-28
In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies) was around 6%, or 2 percentage points above mean growth rates for the preceding 10 years. This period also coincided with significant Chinese FDI flows into these countries,...