| | The last of three reviews of The Berg Report, concentrates on Crisis in Africa - Berg's Diagnosis and Prescription. This sought to analyse the reasons for the widespread economic crisis being experienced by the region in the late 1970s and to prescribe a future course of action to 'accelerate' development there. Supervised under Elliot Berg, one of the Bank's principal ideologues, this report can be taken to represent the view of the Bank on these issues and, accordingly, one can expect that Bank policies and programmes in this region will be guided by it in the near future. As Loxley says, 'it is no easy matter to summarise this report given the wealth of material it covers but ... it can be said that its central theme is that domestic policy issues are at the heart of the crisis in sub-Saharan Africa' . Loxley gives an assessment of this report and his analysis of the crisis in Africa. |
