Go Top What is the gist of the Traps and Legacies scenario?
Traps and legacies is a story of good intentions thwarted by an underlying development malaise, which remains unchanged in the quest for swift dividends. African countries integrate deeper into the global system but on very unequal terms and find themselves even more dependent than before. Foreign aid and investment declines, and economic growth slows. The AIDS epidemic does catalyze people and institutions into responding, but they cannot make sufficient headway in the face of depleted capacity and the spillover impacts from high-prevalence to low-prevalence countries. HIV and AIDS receives very strong emphasis in the near futurebut the responses are fractured and short-term. There is a proliferation of poorly coordinated local responseswhich in turn wastes resources, skills, energies and institutional capacity. AIDS is treated in isolation from its social and economic context. There is a focus on women, but little is done to change their status in society.
Traps and legacies is a story of good intentions thwarted by an underlying development malaise, which remains unchanged in the quest for swift dividends. African countries integrate deeper into the global system but on very unequal terms and find themselves even more dependent than before. Foreign aid and investment declines, and economic growth slows. The AIDS epidemic does catalyze people and institutions into responding, but they cannot make sufficient headway in the face of depleted capacity and the spillover impacts from high-prevalence to low-prevalence countries. HIV and AIDS receives very strong emphasis in the near futurebut the responses are fractured and short-term. There is a proliferation of poorly coordinated local responseswhich in turn wastes resources, skills, energies and institutional capacity. AIDS is treated in isolation from its social and economic context. There is a focus on women, but little is done to change their status in society. As a result, their burden g
