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On African Responsibility for Economic Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Richard E. Mshomba
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African countries, like many other developing countries, suffer the problems associated with poverty—malnutrition, poor health services, high infant mortality rates, low life expectancy, high illiteracy rates, poor infrastructure, and inadequate technology. These problems are especially severe in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 1997 , pp. 50 - 53
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1997 

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Richard E. Mshomba, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Economics at La Salle University in Philadelphia. Two shorter versions of this manuscript, “Western Progress and African Poverty: Cause and Effect?” and “Africa Blames the West Over Economic Woes,” have been published, respectively, in Comboni Missions (Summer 1995) and Tanzania’s Daily News (February 27 and February 28, 1995).

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Notes

1. Adjei Dickson, New Africa, March 1994.

2. World Bank, World Development Report, 1994.

3. World Bank, World Development Report, 1996.

4. Olukoshi, A. O. , “The Origins, Nature and Dimensions of the African Debt Crisis,” in Olusanya, G.O. and Olukoshi, A.O. (eds.), The African Debt Crisis, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, 1989 Google Scholar.

5. Zaire’s GNP in 1983 was $4.7 billion (World Development Report, 1986). For more information about Zaire’s debt crisis, see Elmar, Altvater, et al. (eds.), The Poverty of Nations: A Guide to the Debt Crisis-From Argentina to Zaire (translated by Terry, Bond), Zed Books Ltd., 1991 Google Scholar.

6. Economist, September 11, 1993, 79.

7. Daily News, December 15, 1995, Tanzania.

8. World Bank, Adjustment in Africa: Reform, Results, and the Road Ahead, 1994), p. 27.

9. Bank of Tanzania, Twenty Years of Independence: 1961-1981, Tanzania Google Scholar.

10. For details see E. May, “Exchange Controls and Parallel Market Economies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Focus on Ghana,” (World Bank Staff Working Paper, 1985), p. 711, and Mshomba, R. E. , “The Magnitude of Coffee Arabica Smuggled from Northern Tanzania into Kenya,” Eastern Africa Economic Review, Volume 9 (1), 1993 Google Scholar.

11. World Bank, Adjustment in Africa: Reform, Results, and the Road Ahead, 1994.