The Economic Development of Tropical Africa and Its Effect on the Native Population

1926 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
W. Ormsby-Gore
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Tropical Africa

Some Theoretical Aspects of Economic Development

1954 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
World War ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
The World ◽  
Freedom Of Action

While the problem of economic development long has been a standard topic for economic historians, it has not been until recent years that most other modern economists have displayed a more dian casual interest in this subject. Two sets of factors have been particularly important in stimulating this new activity. The first, of course, concerns the ever-increasing efforts being made to accelerate economic development in the so-called “backward” regions of the world. Since World War II a number of the countries in the economically backward list have received eitfier complete political independence or a much greater degree of freedom. And one of the major ways they are using this new freedom of action is to plan and undertake extensive governmental development projects. For rightly or wrongly most of these countries feel that their former rulers thwarted the type of economic development most beneficial to the native population, and they are almost fanatically anxious to remedy this condition.

Taxation and Economic Development in Tropical Africa.

Economica ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 32 (127) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Alan T. Peacock ◽  
John F. Due
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Tropical Africa

The Development of Population Policies

1971 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. I. Pool
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
African Population ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Population Policies ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Use Studies

UNTIL recently the tendency has been to look at African population largely in terms of crude density. From this standpoint tropical Africa was often rated as ‘underpopulated’, and even the recent and prestigious Pearson Commission, although noting the overall effect of population growth on development, stated blandly: ‘In Africa and Latin America…settlement is so sparse that it is impossible to speak of overpopulation.’1Yet two years before, by synthesising a number of land-use studies and by demonstrating that, in terms of available land suitable for agriculture and pastoralism, there was pressure on rural resources, a prominent geographer had attacked, and one would have thought, had laid to rest, this argument. I do not wish to reiterate his case.2Instead, using his article as a base, I will attempt here to make very crude prognoses and predictions and then to look at their policy implications, both for the sector discussed by him and for other sectors of social and economic development.

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