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Development Solutions for Africa: The Need for Policy Reform and Good Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Kempe Ronald Hope
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With few exceptions, economic development in the African states has generally been elusive and the people in sub-Saharan Africa remain among the poorest in the world. From 1970 to 1990, GDP per capita in sub-Saharan Africa grew in real terms by only US$80 and the region’s aggregate GNP per capita was only US$340 in 1990. In terms of annual percentage change, the region registered a 1.8 percent annual growth from 1970-77, an annual decline of 3.0 percent from 1978-84, and an annual increase of 2.4 percent from 1985-90. However, for the entire period of 1970-90, growth was statistically insignificant. During the period 1980-92 the annual growth rate of GNP per capita in sub-Saharan Africa was recorded as -1.83.

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African Issues , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 1997, pp. 35 - 38
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1997 

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Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr., is a United Nations Chief Technical Adviser to the Government of Botswana and Professor of Development Studies at the University of Botswana. The views he expresses here are private and do not necessarily represent the views of the United Nations, the Government of Botswana, or any other organization with which he was formerly or is currently affiliated. His next book, Development in the Third World: From Policy Failure to Policy Reform, is forthcoming from M.E. Sharpe Publishers.