ABSTRACT
In the interim period, and during the process of implementation, the national budget changed dramatically in its structure and the South continued to be granted insufficient resources, and those which were allocated were not efficiently managed. Less poverty, in particular, to give people the feeling that there were prospects for improvement and also to address political and socio-economic marginalisation and inequalities. This would have required that both the Northern and Southern governments spent their own resources in a fairer manner towards poverty reduction and regional development and towards transparency and good economic governance instruments. In sum, a sustainable development and peace agenda should have been based on the existence of a political leadership and a civil society committed to sustainable social and economic transformation and growth and with the capacity to stand above the demands of specific groups, fulfilling the demands of the general population. In fact, the picture of Southern Sudan was one of clear underdevelopment and poverty.
