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Cameroon: Lagging in Science

Written bySokari Ekine
Posted 20 June 2006 17:38 GMT

Scribbles from the den comments that Cameroon is one of the world's World’s Scientifically Lagging Countries – Alongside Chad and Fiji…..”Caught up with daily survival, people in these societies do not necessarily see the value in building [Science & Technology] capacity because the payoffs are not generally immediate.”

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