Report on the economic and social situation in Africa, 1995

Abstract

The proportion of the population in Africa living under conditions of poverty has increased at an even faster rate, both in the rural areas, where the economy continued to decline and in the cities, where there has been lack of dynamism in fostering growth and job creation in the industrial and service sectors. Africa's share of aggregate world output has continued to shrink while, at the same time, its population growth rate stands at roughly twice that of the world.