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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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A Report to the Congress on Development Needs and Opportunities for Cooperation in Southern Africa
Author: A Report to the Congress on Development Needs and Opportunities for Cooperation in Southern Africa
Author: United States. Agency for International DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In March 1979 the US Agency for International Development presented a voluminous report (39 volumes) to the Congress. The report consists of study papers on economic sectors, problem areas and nine individual countries in Southern Africa, prepared by consultants and contractors from a wide range of firms and academic institutions. The summary report is an overall document focusing on regional development prospects and priorities for US assistance. It contains some useful data, but suffers from inadequate consultation with the governments or liberation movements of several of the countries (Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia) as well as from lack of explicit discussion of political constraints to development, economic independence and a strategy for meeting "basic needs". This is particularly evident in the report on Namibia, which is very much a US perspective of what the needs of the Namibian people are and what opportunities an independent Namibia opens for the US. The study is based on the assumption that Namibia is likely to receive foreign assistance if the new government is acceptable to the UN "as well as the US and other Western powers", and that "a gradual and orderly disentanglement of the links between the two countries (Namibia and South Africa) could be accomplished without affecting Namibia's development". The strength of the report lies in the identification of some of the main economic constraints, as well as in the discussion of the potentially vital role an independent Namibia could play in a regional strategy. When it comes to specific recommendations for economic policies and priorities of assistance, the report can be regarded as a prescription for a capitalist-oriented course with more emphasis on export potential than on internal needs. There is a special review section on the reports in Rural Africana, nos. 4-5, 1979: p. 131-59. (Eriksen/Moorsom 1989).
A Report to the Congress on Development Needs and Opportunities for Cooperation in Southern Africa: Annex B: Manufacturing. Mining. Refugees
Author: United States. Agency for International DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A.I.D. Research and Development Abstracts
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A Report to the Congress on Development Needs and Opportunities for Cooperation in Southern Africa
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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A Report to the Congress on Development Needs and Opportunities for Cooperation in Southern Africa: Annex B: Agriculture. Health. Labor migration
Author: United States. Agency for International DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A Report to the Congress on Development Needs and Opportunities for Cooperation in Southern Africa: Annex A: Malawi. Mozambique. Namibia
Author: United States. Agency for International DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages :
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A.I.D. Research Abstracts
Author: A.I.D. Reference CenterPublisher:
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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