Measuring the Sudanese economy: a focus on national growth rates and regional inequality, 1959–1964

Abstract

What effect did the adoption of national income accounting as a planning technique have on economic policy-making in Sudan during the first half of the 1960s? This article draws on extensive archival evidence from the World Bank Archives, the British National Archives and the National Records Office in Khartoum, Sudan. The main conclusion is that national income accounting heightened planners' awareness of income inequality between Sudan and other states, but lessened their awareness of regional inequality within Sudan. This article takes the Ten Year Plan of Economic and Social Development, 1961/62–1970/71 as a case study for how policy-makers implement plans that magnify inequality in the name of development. The conclusion offers some suggestions for the connection between growing regional inequality and the October 1964 coup.

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