Manpower, technology, and employment in Africa: internal and external policy agendas

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Title:	Manpower, technology, and employment in Africa: internal and external policy agendas
Author:	King, Kenneth
Year:	1985
Issue:	13
Language:	English
Series:	Occasional papers (ISSN 1363-0342)
City of publisher:	Edinburgh, Scotland
Publisher:	Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh University
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	labour force employment
Abstract:	The agendas on manpower and development in Africa look very different inside and outside the continent.The external agenda is concerned with 'getting the numbers right', mismatch, the dangers of over-expansion and underutilization, and with the training of very spectific sub-groups for the problems of agricultural productivity, population control or whatever. The local manpower agenda cntinues, as in the colonial period, to be dominated by and conditioned by the traditions of scarcity and exclusion form training that were imposed on the continent. The conflict between these two perspectives is at the heart of this paper, as is the concern that new work on manpower in Africa take account of them, but go geyond them to look more relevantly at the interconnections of education, science and technology, manpower and development.