ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the dubiety of much of the population and national income data relating to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which lies behind allegations of low or negative growth rates in income per capita, and falling agricultural output per capita. It demonstrated that the growth of the local urban market in SSA. Policies which increase the purchasing power of local urban communities are becoming more relevant than export-oriented ones. The chapter considers the policies and government services likely to be most important in the near future. It describes a few generally agreed principles of economic growth to construct a non-mathematical model that reflects historical experience. The contact economy provides a market for farmers hitherto dependent on an extremely small non-agricultural sector. The external economy may provide investment capital that begins to expand the local urban sector, with port and transport facilities.
