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America and the World 1988/89 by John A. Marcum is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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AFRICA: A CONTINENT ADRIFT F JL or Africa, this decade has been a period of ominous economic, social and environmental decline. In 1980 depressed world commodity prices, declining agricultural production, ravaging drought and desertification, rising external debt, and both civil and interstate warfare portended continent-wide disaster. Throughout the 1980s per capita income fell from a level already the lowest in two decades. Decreasing financial reserves forced cuts in vital imports, including an eight-percent cut in 1987 alone. As the value of African exports continued to fall, from $57 billion in 1980 to $32 billion in 1986, one African statesman, the former Nigerian head of state General Olusegun Obasanjo, warned that Africa was falling into a state of "dereliction and decay." Yet Africa remained low on the list of American foreign policy concerns. During the Reagan presidency Washington officials spoke of Africa as "a continent of great promise" with which the United States was effectively interacting on both economic and diplomatic fronts.1 The somber reality was that human conditions in Africa were continuing to deteriorate, despite a U.N.-sponsored recovery plan (1986-1990)
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- Author
- John A. Marcum
- Publisher
- Council on Foreign Relations; JSTOR; Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. (ISSN 0015-7120)
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences