Exploring the Path of Autonomous Development: the Development Dilemma and Coping Strategies of Sub-Saharan Africa in the Post-epidemic Era

Mo Bi () and Zhenke Zhang ()
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Mo Bi: Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies
Zhenke Zhang: Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, No 199, 5043-5071

Abstract: Abstract Based on the multidisciplinary research perspectives of economics, politics, and international relations, this paper starts with the analysis of the main characteristics of sub-Saharan African countries, analyzes their economic development difficulties and new challenges in the post-epidemic era, discusses the necessity for sub-Saharan African countries to explore the path of autonomous development at the level of economic structural reform and development model, and proposes coping strategies. Sub-Saharan African countries should seize the opportunity to accelerate economic restructuring under the favorable situation of the formal launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA); take measures to develop agriculture and food production, manufacturing, digital economy, and the AfCFTA construction; and actively cooperate with China and other emerging countries to enhance their capacity for independent development.

Keywords: Africa development; Resource curse; Over-reliance; Self-dependence; Economic restructuring; International cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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