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Excerpts from: the economist intelligence unit & freeman, Fox, Wilbur Smith & Assoc.
(1972-12)
This study states that the development of the East African railways like railways elsewhere, is constructed during a stage of technological and economic development when it was free from effective competition from alternative ...
The multinational corporation in Africa
(1971-02)
With the passage of time and the accumulation of experience, governments of many developing countries, including those in Africa, are coming to regard the phenomenon of private foreign investment as one whose contribution ...
Technology transfer centre progress report on the establishment of an African regional centre for the transfer, adaptation and development of technology
(1977-02)
The objectives of the Centre include the provision of assistance to African Governments in the formulation of technological policies as an integral part of socio and economic development, and the establishment and strengthening ...
Energy statistics and energy balances : essentials for a unified energy policy framework in the ECA region
(1977-07)
The most important prerequisite for the analysis and understanding of the complex functions and interrelationships of an energy economy is the systematic compilation of data on all energy- commodities and on the gamut of ...
Design and evaluation of highway projects and a case study
(1972)
This paper concerned with the design and evaluation of rural road projects, be they trunk roads, intermarket center roads, feeder roads or penetration roads. Many of the points which will be discussed will, however, also ...
Report of the second working group of study seminar participants to the policy conference
(1975-11)
It takes longer to bridge the gap between two crops because house hold stocks are often low, if not non- existent, and because despite the increasing concern of governments it become ever more difficult to supply provision ...
Peasants and coffee-export: a coffee-exporting region in Tanzania - a distorted economic structure and stagnating agriculture
(1973-09)
In his recent hook, "How Europe underdeveloped Africa," WaIther Rodney analyses the two main types of incorporation of the African peasant into the colonial economic system. One is typical for the mining industry and estate ...
Social formations and long distance trade in West Africa
(1975-06)
A large number of scholars holding very different views agreed that long-distance trade played a very important role in the formation of the great Sudanese Empires This paper which in fact denies that the black Africans ...