Berg report

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The Berg report is the name most commonly given to a famous report by Elliot Berg, which was published by the World Bank in 1981. The report was titled "Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda for Action". It claimed that economic underdevelopment was due to excessive regulation, inefficiency and government corruption. The report is sometimes considered to be a manifesto for neoliberalism, which the World Bank pursued in the 1980s.