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Abstract
When the conference which led to this book was held in the autumn of 1998, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) was already experiencing the fallout from the 1997-98 financial crises. The ripples from Asia, Russia and Brazil had temporarily halted the upturn in the region’s economic growth, which from mid-1990 to 1997 had raised expectations for sustained high long-term economic growth in the region. This epilogue briefly reviews key aspects of sub-Saharan Africa’s recent economic performance. It again highlights the need to promote export diversification by fostering competitiveness in manufacturing. Looking further ahead, the epilogue points to the challenges for promoting competitiveness in view of the recent moves towards regional integration and points to the window of opportunity opened by the dramatic improvement in global information and communication technologies (ICT).
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