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Sub-Saharan Africa : from crisis to sustainable growth : along-term perspective study /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: World Bank, 1989Description: xiv, 300 pages : illustrations (some coloured) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0821313495
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC800 SUB
Contents:
Introduction and overview A thirty-year perspective: Past and future Sustainable growth with equity Investing in people Agriculture: the primary source of growth and food security Industry, mining and energy Fostering African entrepreneurship Regional integration and cooperation: from words to deeds Sustainable funding for development A strategic agenda for the 1990s
Summary: This report attempts to provide a long term perspective on the economic situation of sub - Saharan Africa (SSA). It tries to answer the following questions: 1) how have the economies of SSA evolved over the first three decades of independence? 2) what lessons have we learned? 3) what are the prospects for the next generation of Africans? Drawing on past experience, the report explores how programs and policies need to be changed for sustainable growth with equity into the next century. A central theme is that while sound macro economic policies and an efficient infrastructure are essential to provide an enabling environment for the productive use of resources, they alone are not sufficient to transform the structure of African economies. At the same time, major efforts are needed to build African capacities - to produce a better trained, more healthy population and to strengthen the institutional framework within which development can take place. This is why the report strongly supports the ECA and UNICEF's call for human centered development strategy
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Includes bibliographical references

Introduction and overview
A thirty-year perspective: Past and future
Sustainable growth with equity
Investing in people
Agriculture: the primary source of growth and food security
Industry, mining and energy
Fostering African entrepreneurship
Regional integration and cooperation: from words to deeds
Sustainable funding for development
A strategic agenda for the 1990s

This report attempts to provide a long term perspective on the economic situation of sub - Saharan Africa (SSA). It tries to answer the following questions: 1) how have the economies of SSA evolved over the first three decades of independence? 2) what lessons have we learned? 3) what are the prospects for the next generation of Africans? Drawing on past experience, the report explores how programs and policies need to be changed for sustainable growth with equity into the next century. A central theme is that while sound macro economic policies and an efficient infrastructure are essential to provide an enabling environment for the productive use of resources, they alone are not sufficient to transform the structure of African economies. At the same time, major efforts are needed to build African capacities - to produce a better trained, more healthy population and to strengthen the institutional framework within which development can take place. This is why the report strongly supports the ECA and UNICEF's call for human centered development strategy

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