Proposals for strengthening economic integration in West Africa
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The report starts with an analysis of the economic crisis that has affected the economies of West African countries since the early seventies, with particular attention to the growing rural crisis and the increasing reliance on external sources for food, the failure of meaningful industrialization to take place, the accentuation of balance-of-payments problems and foreign indebtedness, and the increasing levels of unemployment and underemployment. While domestic policies and poor economic management have certainly contributed to the crisis, the report concludes that the impact of external forces have played a decisive role in increasing both absolute and relative poverty and dependence in West Africa. Its the view of ECA as well as the authors of the report that West African countries cannot count on a favorable international economic climate to reverse the negative trends of the last decade. Consequently, the governments of the subregion have no choice but to strengthen collective self-reliance among themselves if they are to escape the nightmarish economic and social future that faces West Africa if present trends continue.
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa African Center for Statistics (1984). Proposals for strengthening economic integration in West Africa. Addis Ababa. © UN. ECA. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/5117”Collections
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