Emerging and Traditional Partners of Africa

Article by Bert Helmsing in The Broker online

Many observers regarded Africa as a lost continent just over a decade ago. The stabilization and structural adjustment programmes of the 1980s and liberalization of the economy if the 1990s had not produced the desired private sector investment response. Stagnation continued and security and conflict became new concerns.

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Bert Helmsing is Professor of Local and Regional Development at ISS