News stories by Olara A Otunnu
Africa’s Most Important Election is Underway
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Uganda / NEW JERSEY, USA, Nov 05 (IPS) - Africa has had a terrible record dealing with extreme poverty. The late Adebayo Adedeji, the legendary head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), campaigned vigorously but unsuccessfully in the 1980s against the IMF and World Bank-imposed structural adjustment programmes, contending that these contributed to poverty's increase.
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