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The papers in this volume reveal a wide area of consensus on the definition of critical issues and on some of the short term initiatives needed to grapple with them.This represents a significant change from 1981-82 when the dialogue appeared to be far more highly polarised.This move toward a short run operational consensus is admittedly stronger among academics and other analysts than among bureaucrats and policy-makers, but it is by no means negligible even amongst the latter.It is equally apparent that significant gaps in knowledge of what has happened in SSA generally, and what is happening now, still persist, and this is even more true concerning events at national and local level.This ignorance contributes to divergences in the interpretation of present realities, in analysis of their causes and in views as to whether what is currently happening is best regarded as one relatively homogenous crisis affecting SSA as a whole, or better analysed as a series of crises differently affecting specific countries or groups of countries.Lack of knowledge affects analysis and impedes attempts to reach agreement on policy prescriptions in four ways: a. Certain topics are more amenable than others to policy prescription on the basis of readily ascertainable facts.For example, official grower prices for export crops are readily known, and analysis can be made of the implications of such prices for production.By contrast, it is difficult to measure the effect upon production of a breakdown in transport services or the absence of practicable field-tested research results.In consequence the first category of topics tend to receive disproportionate attention relative to the second.
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