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Title: Responding to Economic Crisis in Africa
Author: Gretchen Bauer
347 Smith Hall
Newark, DE 19716
gbauer@udel.edu
Discipline: Political Science
Target Audience: Introductory, majors and non-majors
Keywords: African economic crisis, debt crisis, economic liberalization, political liberalization, structural adjustment programs
Length of Time/Staging: approximately two weeks of class, three days per week, 50 minutes per class; students are broken down into groups of four each
Abstract: This problem deals with the economic crisis currently plaguing many countries in Africa. Students explore the challenges involved in implementing the most common antidote to that crisis, namely economic liberalization, simultaneously with a program of political liberalization.
Date Submitted: 10/5/2000
Date Published: 1/15/2001
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  © Gretchen Bauer, Univ. of Delaware, 2001.
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