African Economic Development: An Agenda for Future, 1987

This volume was devoted to a discussion of select structural problems of the development process in Africa, and argued that increased South-South cooperation could be of great help in this context. Bleak prospects for increase in the flow of resources to Africa, slowness of the recovery of the world economy from recession, weak prospects of a rapid expansion of world trade, and of the improvements in commodity prices and demand for primary commodities, etc. reinforce the argument for increased South-South cooperation. The study made an attempt to present some concrete proposals for more effective cooperation between African countries and other developing countries. Contributors among others, included experts from the African region: Teresa Chimombe, Rob Davies and Nelson P. Moyo of University of Zimbabwe; M. Hyuha of University of Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania; Arnold Sibanda of Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies; and Joe U. Umo of University of Lagos, Nigeria.