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The basic issues in economic development are how to raise productivity in order to alleviate poverty and how to alleviate the imbalance of economic growth between the rich and poor nations and between the rural and urban dwellers (World Bank 1991). In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) between 85% and 95% of the people live in rural areas. The majority are poor and depend largely on subsistence agriculture and livestock. The annual per capita income is low being less than USD 100. Population growth rates are high, with annual rates of between 2.5% to 3.5% (Sharma 1992). Thus all vagaries of poverty such as hunger, unstable family life, poor nutrition, ill-health, poor formal education and environmental degradation are persistent.
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Monela, G.C., Kihiyo, V.B.M.S. (1999). Wood Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Palo, M., Uusivuori, J. (eds) World Forests, Society and Environment. World Forests, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4746-0_15
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