ABSTRACT
This chapter has three parts.The first lays out the main argument on which the analysis of the chapter is based.It is followed by the listing and then development of some of the themes that help to explain the country’s economic, social, and political development in the past. The third part examines the current situation and indicates what might happen if the country’s political and economic leaders do not act to move the country in the right direction at this critical juncture in its history.
