By Yong Zhou
Surroundings and improvement in Africa is a two-part booklet that first makes an attempt to weave jointly a collection of forecasts as realistically as attainable and in a undeniable feel constitutes the scheme of destiny developments within the setting and improvement in Africa. the second one half investigates 3 types of "eventualities." situation 1 seems at established progress and environmental misuse. the second one state of affairs is predicated at the speculation that Africa may have higher autonomy in development or improvement. this example will have the funds for better room for maneuver in which environmental concerns may possibly locate their position.
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Once this tendency was established it is likely that over the coming years certain conflicts of interest with the dominant forces would emerge. This would be the case, for example, if several African countries were to adopt measures similar to those of Brazil, which requires GREATER E C O N O M I C A U T O N O M Y 41 that, in the execution of equipment programmes, the rate of incorporation of national equipment attain 70%. This is despite the arguments of the World Bank which points to the increase in costs and delays in execution which such a measure will provoke.
Migrations of labour from the rural areas toward the in- 22 One practice which would become prevalent, in the hypothesis in question, could probably be likened to the " t u r n - k e y " contracts—that is, those in which only one enterprise is responsible for the construction of a unit as well as for studies, orders and supplies. 23 In fact, the most likely hypothesis appears to be that of a differential evolution, if one considers the heterogeneousness of present conditions and the improbability of an association within which the wealthiest countries would contribute to the development of the less fortunate ones.
In the next two decades the beneficiary countries should become increasingly sensitive to the variations in the supplies available in the industrial countries, and aware of the fact that donations are influenced by economic activity in general, and in particular, by the demand for animal products in the industrial countries themselves. The difficulty of predicting the real possibilities of the donors makes it hard for the African countries which depend on these resources to ensure the continuity of supplementary food programmes, or the implementation of certain investments using this aid.