 The "Missing Middle" in Sub-Saharan Africa: Role of South-South CooperationBy Raj Sharma, 1993 |
Economic development in the African region always assumes a place of strategic importance in the current debate on new world order. Despite considerable literature on the subject, a perceptible insight into various factors responsible for African economic crisis along with a package of remedial measures has not yet been derived. It is for this reason that the many policy prescriptions of the experts and the world bodies, which are merely based upon some ideological predilections, have not yielded the desired results of activating the process of development in the African region. The purpose of the present study by Dr Raj Sharma was to make a detailed analysis of this phenomenon of the "Missing Middle" in the African region with a view to deriving some policy guidelines and concrete schemes of action which would facilitate the process of rapid development in the African region. The study has singled out two specific issues for detailed analysis: reducing food insecurity in the Sub-Saharan Africa and encouraging small scale industries as a strategy for effective spread of entrepreneurship and industrial culture. There was a clear message in the study that developing countries like India could provide effective support to the process of development in the African region. |