Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Habiyaremye, Alexis
Author-Email: habiyaremye@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Dependence on Primary Commodities and Poverty Traps in Sub-Saharan Africa:
	 Devising strategies and building capabilities for diversification
Abstract: This paper analyses the poverty traps problem of Sub-Saharan African (SSA)
	 countries and their dependence on a few primary export commodities in their
	 trade relationships with the rest of the world. We argue that traditional
	 approaches to development and industrialization have failed to take account
	 of the necessity of building appropriate technological capability for SSA
	 countries to acquire, master and effectively apply modern technologies.
	 Taking lessons from the failure of these traditional approaches, w e place
	 the national systems of innovation (NSI) approach and the adequate technological
	 capability building (TCB) at the source of economic diversification needed to
	 reduce dependence on primary commodities and disentangle poverty traps in SSA countries. 
Keywords: systems of innovation, technology policy, economic development, industrialization,
	 poverty, capability building, primary commodities, natural resources, sub-saharan africa
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2005
Number: 09
File-URL: http://www.intech.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2005-9.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 574 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200509