Female circumcision in Africa

Africa contains large quantities of raw materials, only a part of which is currently exploited. Such exploitation is in many cases fully or partially controller1 by foreign capital. Furthermore, almost all raw materials are used, to supply processing plants located outside the continent. In order to reach the target identified at Lima, according to which Africa is to provide 2 per cent of world industrial production by the year 2000 (as against 0.5 per cent at present), it is clear that considerable efforts will have to be made for Africa to use its resources for its own development. To achieve this objective, African countries will have to implement a concerted policy and work together closely in the prospection, exploitation, trade and processing of the region's raw materials. As each African country has different supplies of natural resources, trade in raw materials for basic industries seems to be one of the key links in the autonomous and rational development of the continent, The Lagos Plan of Action sets out guidelines to help to promote further trade in raw materials for basic industries air" to achieve increased intra—African co-operation in developing an-' monitoring the continent's principal resources.

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Format:	Working paper biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	1981
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10855/10048
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