The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Sub-Saharan Africa

From West Africa to the Central Mediterranean Route : European Union and Member States’ Responses to Handle the Migration Crisis

“…To some extent the low level of integration to the global economy protected West Africa from the direct negative effects of the financial crisis. 198 The indirect effects of the crisis, however, reached West Africa as well. First of all, the worldwide crisis did not allow migrants to use alternative opportunities to shift to different destination countries.…”