A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOME RURAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA—Zaire, Ivory Coast and Tanzania

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Agrarian crisis has affected most African countries these years and has shown the rural populations' crucial importance in the development process. Each country in Africa has dealt with the crisis in a different way. Most strategies, however, have failed to improve the economic situation. Zaire and Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) centered their rural development strategies on the liberal model, while Tanzania attempted to apply a socialist rural development policy. The comparison of these strategies shed light on the main features of the rural development process, its problems and perspectives in an African context.