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The Sudanese Private Sector: an Historical Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Robert L. Tignor
Robert L. Tignor
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Chairman and Professor of History, Princeton University, New Jersey.
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In the decade of the 1970s the Arab world, its resources swelled by surplus oil profits, looked to the Sudan to become the area's granary. Arab leaders knew that the country possessed abundant arable and pasture land, thought to be capable of supplying 40 per cent of the grain requirements of the region, and substantial fish and red meat supplies. They saw Sudanese development as leading to regional food self-sufficiency. In this vision of economic transformation they expected the Sudanese private sector to work in combination with Arab oil money and western technology.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 179 - 212
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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