Progress report on TCDC and ECDC in Africa

Abstract

Particularly in .the areas of science and technology and human resources development, the record of technical Co-operation between Africa and other developing regions is derisory. Technical co-operation has not had carry-through effects on the environment because the economic structures of African countries are out of joint and provide little inter-sectoral and intra-sectoral linkages that would adjust production to consumption patterns. Coherence is only achieved in their integration into external dominating economies. Technical co-operation has been conducted piece-meal and in no concerted manner. For it to br. come a development engine between the newly –industrialized.