Namibia is approaching independence with a very limited
quantity of either research or baseline data available.
Its history, the course of the liberation struggle, the
structure of the economy all suggest that the political
economic transition will be drastic, rapid and in danger
of being chaotic. This Discussion Paper seeks to provide
a basic political economic survey of the land, its
history, the present economic structures, the political
economic platform of the liberation movement. It also
includes a set of statistical estimates - Population,
Employment, Education; National Accounts; Agriculture,
Fishing, Mining, Public Finance - to begin filling the
gap left by the absence of published official statistics