UNITED NATIONS
AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT M'lDPL,\NNING
IDEP/ET/RAP/2426
AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOfllENT
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Dakar, Republic of Senegal
REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 1 JUNE 1971 - 31 DEC~1BER 1971
March 1972
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I - Sm1~~RY OF OPERATIONS
The new activiti~s planned for the Second Phase of the Institute were implemented, in part, during the period covered by this Report' The Junior Research Fellowship Programme came into effect in the second half of July ",hen four research fello\ls came into residence. In October, 14 more fellows were admitted, The period also saw active preparations for the other components of the new programme. The first of the SUb-regional seminars will tctke place in February of 1972, to be followed by the first of the two conferences planned for 1972 being held in late Karch.
The third part of the traditional Nine~lonth Course ended on July 9. That was the last of the Nine-Month Courses to be held at the Institute.
The ~nnual course in Project Analysis took place in Nairobi from 19 July to 3 September.
Several members of the teaching staff undertook travel in connexion with research projects or in connexion with preparations for sub~regional activities due to take place in the new year.
Travel was also unctertakento attend important international meetings and conferences.
Three staff members of the professional category joined the Institute's teaching staff during this period.
The :,cademic",dvisory Board met in mid-December to consider the Work Programme for 1973.
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I I - DETtILS OF ~CTIVITIES
(i) Training Courses
A - Part III of the Nine-Month Course
Part III of the Nine-Honth Course -covered the period of- April 13 to July 9. In this part of th" course, lectures were reduced to a total of two weeks and the students given the opportunity to undertake reseElrch on various subjects under the supervision of the staff. The following were some of the topJcs covered under this three-month research programme:
- Agrarian Structure in Ethiopia and its effects on Economic Development.
- The Social ,~spects of Economic Integr"tion - North
~frican Sub-region (Libya, Egypt, SUdan).
- Skilled Manpower in Senegal - Nature and Utilisation.
- External Aid Policy - a case study of Congo.
- The causes of Cape-verdian migration to Senegal.
- The Terms of Trade Problems of Senegal.
- Higrations of the r-Iourid Uolof Pionneers to the New Lands - roles of economics and religion.
- The Role of Foreign Capital in the Industrial Development of Togo'during the last two decades.
- Migrations of Rwandese Populations in the region of the Great Lak~s of Central Africa.
The total number of participants in the Nine-Month Course during 1970/71 was 50. Of this number, 40 fellOWS attended the 1st part of the course, 35 attended th~ 2nd part and the number went down to 25 (10 Anglophones and 15 Francophones). This decline in the
number of enrolment was inevit~ble since the academic year of 1970/71 was the last for the traditional nine-month course and ne'l candidiltes could not be admitted dur ing the second and third trimesters \,.ithout creating the problem of having to deny them the full cycle of courses.
The countries represented in the third p)rt of the course ",1""(;
Dahomey - Togo - Burundi - Rwanda - Congo - Cape-Verde - Senegal - Ethiopia - Libya - A.R.E. - "lgeria - Sudan.
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ENROLMENT ~T IDEP COURSES, 1970-71
Course Countries Participants
Total Anglo Franco Total Anglo Fr-;;"nco
Datal': (1) Nine410nth
Part I 15 4 11 40 17 :~:3
Part I I
(a) From Part I (14 ) (4) (10 ) (25 ) (8) (17 )
(b) Nel·, Admissions 3 2 1 10 5 5
(c)
Total 17 6 11 35 13 22Part III
(a) From Part I I (17 ) ( 6) ( 11 ) (35) (13 ) (22)
(b) New Admissions -3 -1 -2 -9 -3 -6
(c)
Total 14 5 9 26 10 '!6Total of all three part s 18 6 12 50 22 25
(2) Financing of
Trade &Development 11 4 7 16 9 7
(5 >leeks)
Cairo: (3) Regional 12 6 6 27 20
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,Planning (8 >leeks)
Nairobi: (4) Project
Analysis 15 13 2 28 27
TOTAL (121 ) (78) (43)
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B - Junior Research Fellowship Programme ..
The traditional Nine-Month Course was replaced by the Junior Research Fellowship Programme in late July, "hen 4 felloHs were admitted.
By
October, when the new programme "as formally launched, there were 18 research fellows in residence. This number was selected from over 100 applic~tions. Of these, 12 fellows were from French-speQking countries of ,frica, and 6 from English-speaking countries.Prior to sending the fellows to the field, two short courses were followed. The first of these w~s a six-week course on statistical research methods designed as a review of what the fellowsmoy have already le~rned previously. The second w~s ~
series of short semin~r sessions on various topics designed to widen the outlooks of the research trainees beyond their o,vn fields of research.
Syllabus of the 6-week course of statistics:
1. Planning and statistical requirements 2. Methods of collecting statistical data 3. Types and sources of statistics in Africa 4. Bnsic notions in probability theory
5. Sampling Techniques
6. Description of statistical data a) frequency distrib~~ions
b) measures of central values and variations 7. Estimates of the popUlation figures from the sample d~ta
8. Sampling error and tests of significance
9. Regression and correlation analysis 10. Index number construction
" . PopUlation projections
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The seminars comprised eighteen sessions (of 3 hours each) on various sUbjects relating to development strategy and planning policies in the co~text of African countries. Each fellow presented a ShOTt paper on an assigned theme which was then discussed by the group of fellows and teachers.
Main Research by Junior Fellows
Under the Junior Research Fellowship Programme, research fellows are expected to carry out, under the supervision of IDEP staff, practical research on the problems of development and planning in African countries. The following is an indicative list of the research in progress:
1. Educational and manpower planning: the application
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aneconometric model (S11dan ar:d Libya).
2. Development planning strategy and domestic resource mobilization:
a comparative case study of Tanzania, Ghana and Zambia.
3. Formation of Social Gro~ps in Guinea.
4. A critical appraisal of the concept of "human resources" in
some African Plans (Ethiopia, Tanzania and Cameroon).
5. Competition in the field of hydrocarbons between the major
African producing countries (Algeria, Libya, Nigeria and Gabon;.
6. Frontier and 11igration b.etl<Teen Senegal and Gamhia.
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7. Critical appraisal of monetary management in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia).
8. Public debt pr6blems of African countries (with special reference to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Gambia and Nigeria).
9. Inflation and economic development: a case study of Mali.
10. Mixed farming (agro-pastoral) systems and integrated develop- ment of Liptako-Gourma (Mali, Niger, Upper-Volta).
11. Taxation in rela,ion to development in Africa (case of Senegal).
12. Cape-verdian migrations to Dakar.
13. Regionalization and Developmen, (Cameroon, Dahomey and Ivory Coast) •
14. The adaptation of higher education to manpower needs in some African countries.
15. Tr~de between African countries and their importance for economic integration.
16. Civil service systems in developing countries: a comparative study of Morocco and Sudan.
17. The trend and financing of agricultural development in Dahomey and Ivory Coast.
18. The relations between agriculture and industry for self-centered development in tropical Africa: Kenya, Tanzania and Mali.
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By December, most of the research felLows had been sent to the field for data collection, which involved the carrying out of surveys in a number of cases.
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Other regional coursesNairobi: IDEP/EDI/IDS Project Evaluation Course.
19 July - 3 September
Director of the Course Mr. Morris lIILLER (EDI)
Co-Directors Mr. P. HOPCR4FT (IDS) Mr. G. ABANGW (IDEP)
The course waS att~nded by 28 participants from 15 different African countries distributed as follows: Cameroon (1); Ethiopia (2); Gambia (1);Ghana (3); Ivory Coast (ADB) (1);
Kenya (5); Liberia (1); Malawi (1); Nigeria (2): Sierra Leone (1);
Sudan (3); Swaziland (1); Tanzania (3): Uganda (2); A.R.E. (2).
The course ,.as intended for public offichls who had
had experience in responsible posts related to investment decisions
in the principal economic sectors. Candidates were selected mainly from planning agencies and ministries, public corporations and financing institutions responsible for the preparation of develop- ment projects and their financing. The course was conducted in English.
Summary of Course Syllabus.:
(a) Seminar I (from 19 to 28 July): Economic Growth and Development:
the framework for the project.
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(b) Seminar II (29 July - 6 August): Trade and Techniques for Proj8ct ~nalysis.
(c)
Seminar III (9 - 13 August): Project Identification, Preparation and Implementation.(d) Seminar IV (16 - 25 August): Agricultural Sector Programme, Projects and POlicies.
(e) Seminar V(25 AUSfust - 3 Septembel--): Infrastructural and Industrial Sector Project.
(ii) Seminars held at I.D.E.P.
In August and September, I.D.E.P. hosted two seminars:
the first one, on Long-term Projections, organized by the CDPPP, took place from 16 to 27 August; the second one, a training workshop in methods on Industrial Surveys, organized by UNIDO, was held from 13 to 24 September.
(iii) Research and Advisory Services
Various members of the- Institute undertook travel for research purposes and/or in connection with organizational contacts on behalf of the Institute.
Mr. Jacques BUGNICOURT visited a number of Western and Eastern African countries to make contacts with prospective consultants for the two seminars:
(a) Migrations in West Africa
(b) The use of external funds for the development of East African countries.
He and Mr. Sekou BA visited the Haghreb countries to make preliminary consultations for the Algiers course on rural dualism.
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111'. Joseph VAN DEN REYSEN made study trips to Gabon, Za'i:r·.·, Z"mbia and the C.A.R., tQwa.rd,s preparation of various IDE? semin&rs.
Hr. R.G.l. AMOA visited Ghana to undertake a survey in connect ion wi th t h,U1igr,at:'ion.,S e,mi"ar.
Mr. S. ODOTEYE (Librarian) visited Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya to establish contacts with UN and governmental offices for IDE1' Library and document~tion purposes.
(iv) Travels to attend meetings
111'. G. ABANGWU went to Nairobi to lecture at the joint IDE1'/EDI/IDS Project Analysis Course and undertake research work for IDEP seminars.
Mr. H. NAGUIB visited Rabat to attend a meeting of the Association of African Central Banks.
Mr. R.G.K. !~IOA visited Great Britain and Italy to attend various seminars at the University of Sussex, and in Milan, and to undertake a recruitment tour.
Mr. K.H. KHALIL went to Latin ~merica and Germany to attend a seminar at Quito and a conference at the University of Heidelberg/Rheda on behalf of IDEP.
Mr. S. AMIN participated in the seninar organi~ed by the DagHammarksjoeld Foundation at Upsala, Sweden. He also represented IDEP at the IDS Seminar on Urban Unemployment and Rural Migratio~s
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held in Brighton, Sussex. Finally, he participated in a Congress of sociologists held in Tunisia.
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(v) Travel by Junior Research Fellows in connexion with their Research Proqrammes
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Name of Junior Re search Fello,;
L. TOSSOU T. KAF.~NDO
F. SACR,\HENTO B.Y. GAL,\L EL DIN
A. TRADRE L. BOHNER S. SO,1
(vi) Staff llovement s
country/Countries visited in connexion \lith Research
Dahomey
Upper-Volta - Hali - Niger Dahomey
Ethiopia - Kenya - Tanzania - Uganda
Kenya - Tanzania Cameroon
llali
(a) The following members joined the staff of the Institute:
Na.!!!.<,;
~fr. H. SILVi,-,:;ICHELEH,\
~rs. F.A. DI~RR~
Post
Lecturer
Research AS!listant
Country
Venezuela Niger
Da te of '\rrival 1/8/71
1/11/7 1
Hr. ~1• DO\lID\R )
) Expected , join staff shortly.
Mr. S. SHAH to
) Hr. A. i\~ '~llah .\LI )
(b) The following staff member left the Institute:
Mr. Peter CORNELISSE'returned to the Netherlands Economic Institute after spending two years with I.D.E.P.
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(vii) The Second Meeting of the Academic Advisory Board The Academic Advisory Board met in mid-December to review the work of the Institute over the 1970-71 Academic year and to examine the 1973 ~ork Progr~mme (the Vork Programme for 1972 had previouslY been examined and. then approved by the Boord}.
The Board made v~luable suggestions for integr3tion of student research and other components of the 1973 Programme which it then went on to approve.
Present at this meeting of the Board were:
~ Title Status
Mr. P. RAJAOBELINA Deputy Executive Secretary Caairman (replacing Nr. GARDINER)
Hr. H.M •.'.• OlIITIRI Director of NISER - National
Institute for Social and Member Economic Research - University
of I BAD,;N, Nigeria
Mr. Ch. DIARRASSOUBA Lecturer - Faculty of Lawand Member Economic Sciences - ABIDJAN,
Ivory Coast
Mr. Abdoulaye ~ADE Lecturer - Faculty of Law Hember and Economic Sciences - DAKAR,
Senegal Mr. Samil' AlIIU
Mr. Charles FROU
Mr. Dudley SEERS
Dr. Ismail ~BDALLAH
IDEP Director
Centres d'Etudes des Programmes Economiques - PARIS, France
Director of the Institute for Development Studies -
University of Sussex - U.K.
Director of the National Institute for Planning, Cairol A.R.E.
Secretary Co-opted
Hembel"
Co-opted Hember
Co-opted Hember
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Q,ther--}latters-- -
CODESRI~: ,lith the approval of the Governing Council, I.D.E.P. is serving as temporary secret~ri~t for the Conference of Directors of Economic and Soci~l Rese~rch Institutes of Africa. It has also assumed responsibility for m'l.naging the d::.t~ bank of the Conference, a service which w~s formerly provided by E.C.A.
The new organization seeks to stimulate as well ~s coordin~te social research in Africa.
(viii) Building
A new wing of 16 offices was added to the existing premises of the Institute. This came in time to meet the require- ment of expanded office space in the light of the new orientations.
The entire cost of the new '"ing ,,,as borne by the Government of the Republic of Senegal.
As of the end of the year, the Government was still going ahe~d with the prepar3tion of the "project" for a new
permanent building for the Institute. It has been understood from the authorities that, following completion of the building "project", sources of finance for the building would be approached as soon as the appropriate "agreements" relating to the obligations of the Government in respect of the building had been completed with either the Institute or UNDP.
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III - EVALUATI~
The reSponse to the new programmes of the Institute has been very encourc.gi:ng and has, in some cases, exceeded all expect- ations. This is particularly so in the case of the Junior Research Fellowship Progrllmme. for wllich oyer 100 applications had been received for the .initi3.1 20 available places. There hns ~lso been a sharp increase in the demand for advisory services t6 various government s.
However, as had been pointed out in the previous report, the need for additional ~eaching staff in terms of quantity as well as quality remains one of the most serious problems to be solved before the Institute could effectively fulfil its expressed aims.
This need, already acute, has been made more sO by the student research programme which requires effective guidance and super- vision from the Institute staff which is otherwise engaged in its Olm research as Ilell as organizational work in relation to the various seminars.
The situation is expected to improve over the first half of 1972 when a number of new staff is expected to join the Institute on a permanent basis. In addition, invitation circulars have been sent out to tae v~riQus institutions of higher learning on the continent for qualified teachers to spend their sabbatical ye3rs at I.D.E.P. It is expected that temporary relief will be obtained from this source.
The second problem of considerable importance relates to the cost of operations. By the nature of the new orientations -
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increased research activity ,and decentralized operations - travel.
and loc~l costs are expected to go up appreciably. In order to meet all of the Institute's commitments, therefore, it will become increasingly necessary for governments to assume responsibility.
for greater proportions of local costs of operations~ On the \<hole, the perfor"lance of African Governments in this respect during the First Phase gives much hope in this regard.
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Temporary Assistant for Translation 14 -
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