Review of the progress made in the taking into account of the objective and directives of the LPA into the development policies of the African countries

Abstract

The application of inadequate development policies-to Africa has plunged the continent into all sorts of imbalances; an impressive potential of practically unexploited natural resources, increased investment, education, training and employment requirements in the face of meager financial resources, flagrant and: unjustified inequalities in the income between these modern and traditional sectors especially fanning with the attendant accelerated rural exodus, " serious and alarming gap between stagnation in the food production and population growth in addition to the specific transport needs resulting from (the enormous surface area and widespread and scattered) population of the continent. These imbalances reached critical and unbearable proportions early in the 1980s. Aware of this, the African Heads of States and Government were convinced that it was not possible to overcome their without a radical change development' strategies and policies. Thus, in April 198O, they adopted the Lagos Plan of Action supported by the Monrovia; Strategy