TY - BOOK AU - Whetham,Edith Holt AU - Currie,Jean I. TI - The economics of African countries SN - 0521070708 AV - HB171.5 .W47 U1 - 330.96 PY - 1969/// CY - London PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Economics KW - Africa N1 - Includes bibliographical footnotes and index N2 - A brief overview of the African economic picture reveals a paradox where the continent that has rich mineral resources, nearly a billion people and a land mass which includes the sizes of China, USA, India, Western Europe, Argentina together larger than the sum of these regions is in an unacceptable state of being an object of aid, debt and loans despite the vast resources both known and yet to be explored. Africa should have been a productive and innovation centre and not a charity and aid centre of the world where ëdonorshipí has replaced African national ownershipí of not just Africaís reso. ER -