Seidman, Ann2017-06-142017-06-141978https://hdl.handle.net/2144/22437Draft of paper, which was eventually published in the journal "Issue".Crystal ball gazing is hardly the province of social scientists. The best one can do, in attempting to assess the prospects for real economic growth by the year 2000, is to examine the contradictory trends and struggles shaping the political economy of Africa, and the world today, and suggest possible alternative outcomes. Even the probabilities are obscure.paperAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Economic developmentAfricaDevelopmentWorking Paper