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| Title: | Population, Poverty and Underdevelopment in Southern Sudan |
| Author: | House, William J. |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 201-231 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Sudan |
| Subjects: | economic conditions poverty Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade Health and Nutrition Politics and Government Education and Oral Traditions |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/160848 |
| Abstract: | The economy of the southern Sudan, comprised of the three semi-autonomous regions of Bahr El Ghazal, Upper Nile, and Equatoria, remains one of the least developed in sub-Saharan Africa. The meagre social and economic infrastructure of the area has been depleted by 17 years of civil war between the North and the South, and although temporarily halted in 1972, the hostilities were reactivated in 1983 and continue to the present. The concern of this article is with the socioeconomic and demographic situation in the southern Sudan in the period leading up to the second phase of the civil war in 1983. It shows that the vast majority of those living in both rural and urban areas did not have access to the barest minimum of basic goods and essential services, such as food and nutrition, health facilities, water and sanitation, and education. Given the depressed state of the Sudanese economy and the heavy indebtedness of the central government, not much can be expected from public expenditures to improve basic infrastructures and services. The onus lies on the various international development agencies whose work has been halted in recent years by the civil war. Notes, ref. |
