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For the developing countries as a whole, the 1980s have been characterised as the ‘lost decade’, ten years of dismal economic performance and consequential erosion of welfare (Singer, 1989; Fischer, 1991). Economic growth rates plummeted from an annual average of 6 per cent between 1965 and 1980 to 3 per cent during the 1980s (World Bank, 1992a).
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Degefe, B. (1994). An African Perspective on Long-term Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Cornia, G.A., Helleiner, G.K. (eds) From Adjustment to Development in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23596-4_3
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