The development of agriculture vital, not only because it so far forms the bulk of most national income but also because it is through more efficient agriculture that broadly based and sound industrial and commercial ...

Most developing countries have little else besides land and labour at their disposal. Industrial development is unlikely to get under way until purchasing power has been built up among rural workers. This means that the ...

This paper summarizes seven studies of research and extension investment, chiefly in the United States, and attempts to relate the to the policy decisions facing contemporary Africanization. An attempt is made to formalize ...

The adoption of the techniques of benefit-cost analysis for economic evaluation of development projects in the conditions of an under developed country needs careful study. In this paper, by way of example, the economic ...

The feasibility of socioeconomic data collection and presentation at the local and regional levels in Africa. Region level in this article is to be understood as inside a country in contrast to a region comprising various ...

At the Third Session of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), held in February 1961 in Addis Ababa, all delegations agreed on the need for commodity stabilization. The view was expressed that African countries might ...

The agriculture of the African continent, taken as a whole, is characterized by largely subsistence agriculture, and roughly 75 percent of the population is employed on the land. Only one major geographical unit has less ...