Economic development of the Southern Sudan: an overview and a strategy

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Title:	Economic development of the Southern Sudan: an overview and a strategy
Author:	Yongo-Bure, B.
Year:	1989
Issue:	16
Pages:	41
Language:	English
Series:	Discussion papers
City of publisher:	Bremen
Publisher:	University of Bremen, Sudan Economy Research Group
Geographic term:	Sudan
Subjects:	development subsistence economy agriculture
Abstract:	This paper discusses various development efforts made in the southern Sudan after the Addis Ababa Agreement of 1972, which ended a seventeen-year old war. An overview of the economic structure and history of the Sudan is followed by a survey of development programmes carried out between 1972 and 1983, when war broke out again. Attention is paid to crop production, forestry, livestock husbandry, fishery, and cooperatives and agricultural development. The conclusion is that the southern Sudanese economy is basically a subsistence economy, with living standards being among the lowest in the world. This is largely because there has been no endogenously initiated development policy for the South. Development efforts have been incoherent, based on political calculations, and without the involvement of the local population.