African Growth: Why a 'Big Push'?

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Infrastructure and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2008, background): “…outpacing those of rich countries for the first time in many years, leading observers in the development and policy community are advocating a ‘big push’ to help the region escape poverty and regain the lost ground vis-à-vis the rest of the developing world (e.g., Sachs et al 2004, Collier 2006).”
The institutional context of poverty: State fragility as a predictor of cross‐national variation in commercial microfinance lending (2014, background): “Some authors suggest that large countries may provide greater economies of scale than small countries (Collier, 2006, 2007; Prahalad, 2005).”