Politicians and economists in sub-Saharan Africa claim that the eighties were a lost decade for Africa. Statistics justify this statement and prospects for the future are uncertain. Will the structural changes presently taking place in the world economy have a positive influence on development...

In sub-Saharan Africa, like elsewhere in the Third World, great hopes are attached to industrialization as a means of achieving economic and social development. Are the IMF and the World Bank, via their Structural Adjustment Programmes in the region, helping to create a leaner, more competitive...

As a result of a donor conference staged by the World Bank in Paris on 3rd and 4th December, 1987, donor countries and international organizations now intend to make $6.4 billion available in the form of a special programme to highly indebted, low-income African countries to carry out structural...

The present crisis symptoms evident in most developing economies are particularly pronounced in black Africa. Although this is largely due to factors beyond the control of the countries concerned, inappropriate development strategies have aggravated their effects. In order to mobilize the black...

Integration in Africa can only be a long-term attempt to solve economic problems, because of its high absorption of scarce and therefore expensive factors of production. In contrast to integration, cooperation seems to be a more useful approach to tackle the urgent employment and growth problems.