Monograph on African public enterprises : selected papers on technical and managerial problems on African public enterprises

Abstract

A major goal of African Governments since $he attainment of independence has been the social and economic development of their respective countries and the raising of living standards for the masses of the people, experience so far has left no one in doubt about the magnitude and formidable nature of this task, for in spite of its vast but largely, untapped natural resources, the African continent suffers from un integrated, economies of small national markets, while it is seriously lacking in trained manpower essential pre requisites for the transformation of the existing social and economic patterns.