A framework agenda for building and utilizing critical capacities in Africa : preliminary report

Abstract

A full appreciation of the magnitude of the development challenge which Africa faces in the 90s and into the twenty-first century must take into account recent trends in the global economy, particularly the technological, economic and geopolitical trends ushered by the new era of liberalization and global competition. Africa's present generation are facing a vastly changed world. What kind of external and domestic environment will Africa have to contend with and manage successfully in the next 25 years. In the next generation Africa will have to meet the following challenges: accelerating technological changes; new kinds of industrial organization, management, competition and trade; serious pressures on the world's ecological resources and on national eco-systems which in Africa are £urther compounded by rapid popUlation growth.