Hello Cherno:
Thanks for your comments, your points are well noted. The concerns you
raised regarding the projects have been addressed elsewhere and the
focus of this paper was to identify in broad strokes, AFPRC/APRC foreign
policies. Frankly, I have raised many concerns about Gambia's debt and
the projects you mentioned but I did not wish to repete myself. My last
artcles on "Human Rights" and "Flawed Democratic Transitions in Ghana
and Gambia" look at the projects in a balanced way.

Your point about the debt however is important and I will make mention
of it when I revise the paper, which I am doing now.

Abdoulaye

chernob jallow wrote:
>
> Hi Dr. Saine: I find your historical narrative on Gambia's foreign policy
> since the coup quite interesting. But:
> You reveal substantial loans that The Gambia has received from donor
> countries. I wonder if your research could have pointed out if these loans
> had been effeciently allocated to generate the revenue necessary to cushion
> the deteriorating living standards of the people, and refund the lenders.
> Your explanation in regards to the loans and grants The Gambia received is
> as simplistic as it is devoid of sound economic analysis.
>
> I am inclined to argue thus because over the years we have witnessed the
> burgeoning of vainglorious projects in The Gambia, financed by the myriad of
> foreign loans you've mentioned. These loans have not been utilised for their
> intended purposes. Alas, they leave us heavily indebted. Gambia's
> basket-size economy today is teetering on the brink of collapse.
>
> Of course to ask you to go into the mechanics of loan allocation or
> misallocation is to ask too much from you: your topic concerns the growth of
> Gambian foreign relations from July 22, 1994 to current day. However, part
> and parcel of the role of Gambian foreign policy since the coup is to look
> for crumbs from foreign donors and then misuse them at the expense of the
> majority. Unfortunately, your research didn't see that. Gambian foreign
> policy is on the cheap. In my humble opinion.
>
> On the whole, your research is scholarly. Keep it up.
>
> Cherno Baba Jallow
> Wayne State University
> Detroit, Michigan
>
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