title: Capital flight and external borrowing in Sub-Saharan Africa
abstract: Over the past three to four decades, the more sub-Saharan Africa countries (SSA) continue to borrow to finance their development needs; the more honestly acquired capital also leaves the region. This simultaneous occurrence of external borrowing and capital flight had propelled many to ask why countries in the region are borrowing heavily while at the same time, allowing capital to flee abroad. Employing a three, stand-alone empirical papers and dataset from 1990 to 2015, this dissertation exami