Recession in Africa: Background Papers to the Seminar Africa-which Way Out of the Recession? : Uppsala, September 1982Jerker Carlsson Conference papers on economic recession and underdevelopment trends (1963-1980) in Africa, with economic policy guidelines for economic recovery - challenges the analysis and policy measures proposed by World Bank; discusses balance of payments deficits, deficit financing, external debt and the impact of colonialism and capitalism; stresses need for short term "crisis management" through export promotion, crop diversification, production diversification, economic structure and fiscal policy reform; includes case studies. References. Conference held in Uppsala 1982 Sep. |
Contents
ECONOMIC CRISIS IN MALAWI | 28 |
GHANA | 35 |
DEBT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS IN CENTRAL | 80 |
iii | 102 |
NO WORST THERE IS NONE? TANZANIAN POLITICAL | 108 |
WHAT KIND OF SOCIALIST TRANSITION IN CAPITALIST | 141 |
AFRICAN ECONOMIES IN THE MID1980s | 173 |
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Abidjan achieved ADMARC African countries agricultural products agricultural sector allocation areas balance of payments basic borrowing budget Caisse capital capitalist cent cocoa colonial costs crises crops debt service decline deficit deterioration devaluation development strategy domestic earnings economic crisis expand expenditures export external factors farms finance foreign exchange Frelimo funds Ghana growth Harare import capacity import substitution industries incentives income increased independence industrial sector inflation infrastructure inputs institutions investable surpluses Ivorian Ivory Coast labour Lagos Plan levels loans major Malawi manufacturing Maputo ment million Mozambican Mozambique output peasant political economic priority problems profits programmes projects public sector raw materials reduced regime regional resource result revenue Rhodesia rural smallholder social SODEPALM South Africa structural Sub-Saharan Africa surplus Tanzania terms of trade tion transnational corporate transport wage World Bank world market Zambia Zimbabwe