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Although it has long been realised that 'developing' countries do not have to follow the example of 'developed' nations, the mere use of the terms 'nation-building' and 'national integration' implies a straight line of 'progress' from dispersed sub-national communities towards the integrated entity of the nation-state. Add the eagerness of political leaders in the Third World to exert effective control over the population in the absence of established institutions, if possible by becoming the focus of popular solidarity, and the reasons for this emphasis on the notion of national integration become more apparent.

Im Gegensatz zur offenen Unterstützung der Befreiungskämpfe im nordafrikanischen Raum durch Indien verblieben die Beziehungen mit den frankophonen subsaharischen afrikanischen Staaten durch gleichzeitige Verbindlichkeiten gegenüber der Kolonialmacht Frankreich zunächst auf der Ebene diplomatischer Anerkennung. Für einen Ausbau der bis Ende der 1980er und Anfang der 1990er Jahre aufgrund der französischen Dominanz noch sehr beschränkten Handelsbeziehungen zwischen Indien und den Staaten der Franc-Zone bestehen mittlerweile gute Aussichten. Hauptanknüpfungspunkte sind hier der Transfer von angepaßten Technologien und infrastrukturellem know-how im Rahmen der Süd-Süd-Beziehungen. (DÜI-Rwd)

When the oppressive Marxist-Leninst dictatorship of the Derg collapsed in 1991, there was hope that a new era might begin for a democratic Ethiopia. However, backed by the United States, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Front established a government that would not share power. Instead of a transition to democracy, the EPRF denied opposition parties meaningful participation in elections, violated human rights, and intensified ethnic distrust among the people. According to critics, repressions of the government are on a scale equivalent to those of the world's worst dictatorships. Vestal exa

SummaryUsing data from the Demographic Health Survey for Ghana and Senegal, the influences of education and rural versus urban residence, and the difference between the two states on proportions married by various ages and on singulate mean age at marriage are investigated.