01247nam a22001337a 4500 Fafchamps, Marcel Teal, Francis Toye, John Towards a Growth Strategy for Africa UK: Centre for the Study of African Economies , 2001. 74p. Now that China and India have found ways of growing out of poverty, attention has again turned to Africa. The purpose of this report is to ask which engines of growth can be activated in sub-Saharan Africa today. After two decades of stagnation in the continent, discouragement is taking hold. The focus of policy has shifted further and further away from growth-oriented interventions towards welfare assistance. Yet, in the long-run, a growth strategy is the most costeffective way of dealing with poverty. This is true for two fundamental reasons: first, growth lifts many of the poor out of poverty; second, it generates the government revenues necessary for anti-poverty measures. A donor strategy that focuses exclusively on short-term poverty alleviation is a dead end, condemned to last indefinitely. Poverty, Trade, Infrastructure http://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/towards_a_growth_strategy_for_africa.pdf CF 145 145