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| Title: | Environmental Aspects of Economic Development in Sub-Saharn Africa |
| Authors: | Baytas, A. |
| ASFA Terms: | Environmental conditions |
| Issue Date: | Apr-1991 |
| Publisher: | Center For Economic Research on Africa. (CERAF) |
| Abstract: | Studies on the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa have
generally neglected the links between economic growth and
environmental quality. In many such studies, economics
and ecology have been treated as mutually exclusive rather
than complementary domains. The key to Sub-Saharan
Africa's future is to achieve sustainable growth. This calls
for replacing the traditional concept of growth based
economic output alone with a new approach that stresses
development through conservation of Africa's valuable
natural resources of soil, water, forests and wildlife.
Following the 1968-73 drought in the Sahel interest in both the economic
development and the ecology of Sub-Saharan Africa has increased enormously. On the
one hand, economists have used the word "crisis" with increasing frequency to describe
the region's economic predicament. Indeed, statistics amply show that declining per
capita agricultural and food production is widespread (see tables 4 and 5) and that many
social groups are unable to meet their basic needs (Barker 1984). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/562 |
| Appears in Collections: | Miscellaneous
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