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- Title: Economic Development in Sudan Talk Prepared for American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan Conference First Episcopal Church San Jose, CA February 17, 2006.
- Author : Ahfad Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 280 KB
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Abstract This paper summarizes five key concerns of the likely pattern of economic development in Sudan for the coming decade. The benefits of an oil economy to the marginalized, and especially women, are likely to be minimal or even negative. Rapid development, even egalitarian development in terms of equal social spending on girls education and health care, may result in a local culture of machismo, replacing one set of shackles (poverty and legal limitations) on the flourishing of women with another set of shackles (gender violence). The monetary policy of the Bank of Sudan will determine how easily credit is extended in southern Sudan and this will depend on the urban housing market in Khartoum rather than the development needs of southern Sudan. Major concentration of development funds on paved road development is an almost sure-fire way to undermine clean government and spend money ineffectively. Spending priorities should be shifted to cash transfers to the elderly and to families with school children, prioritizing women, and generating an "identity economy."