Beschreibung
Development economists generally argue that poor countries at their early stages of development are faced with limited domestic resources for development, and can therefore borrow to boost their rate of growth and development. This financing gap, which is based on the Harrod-Domar growth theory, has made developing countries to accumulate large amount of external debt that they could no longer sustain. Moreover, there is now a growing concern that the debt service payment is retarding economic growth and investment in the heavily indebted countries, while also displacing current expenditure in priority sectors like health, education, and social infrastructure. This study therefore, examines the impact of external debt on economic growth and investment in ECOWAS Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1980 - 1999. The results indicate the presence of both positive and negative spatial dependence in ECOWAS countries across time.
Autorenporträt
Dauda Foday Suma is an International Development Professional with special expertise on Trade and Industrial Development issues. Since 2007, he has been working at the Department of Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission. He obtained his Doctorate in Regional Economics and Development from the Vienna University of Economics and Business
