These remarks were delivered by Robert McNamara, President of the World Bank in April 1991 for the Global Coalition for Africa in Washington, D. C. Mr. McNamara discussed how Africa must grapple with three major trends that have deeply affected its past development and that will largely determine its future prospects: agricultural stagnation, explosive population growth, and degradation of its natural resource base. The majority of the people of Sub-Saharan...
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1991/04/01
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Africa's development crisis : agriculture stagnation, population explosion, and environmental degradation
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Agriculture
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McNamara,Robert S..
Africa's development crisis : agriculture stagnation, population explosion, and environmental degradation (English). Presidential speech Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/896091468009611893