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 success of the newly industrializing countries of the 1970s brought with it the hope that other Third World countries would soon be able to follow a similar path to development. The conditions facing this second generation of NICs appear far more unfavourable than those which faced the first...