An invaluable introduction to the issues raised about the winners and losers of structural adjustment policies. The book raises new questions and serves as a research agenda for further exploration. It will be a standard work and is a stimulating introduction to political economy in Africa in the 1990s. Countries discussed include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, Tan...
<p>Contents: Merchantisation of Production and Privatisation of Development in Post-Ujamaa Tanzania: An Introduction / Peter Gibbon -- The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth but not the Mining Rights: The Mining Industry and Accumulation in Tanzania / Chachage Seithy L. Chachage -- When the State Withdraws: Local Development, Politics and Liberalisation in Tanzania / And...
The African-based authors of this volume provide a series of objective, detailed, factually up-to-date, and theoretically informed studies of reent developments in agriculture, the informal sector, the social sector and 'civil society' in Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. They analyse the main trends and forces operating in these fields and consider the econom...
<p>Contents: Introduction: Structural Adjustment and the Working Poor in Zimbabwe / Peter Gibbon -- Industrial Relations and Labour Relations under ESAP in Zimbabwe / Lloyd M Sachikonye -- Structural Adjustment, Women and Informal Sector Trade in Harare / Veronica Brand, Rodreck Mupedziswa and Perpetua Gumbo -- Health and Structural Adjustment in Rural and Urban Se...
This book analyzed the effects of some key changes in the global economy on African countries South of the Sahara. Africa has rarely been the main subject of the growing literature on economic globalization. It is either ignored as ‘marginal’ in the dynamics of global economic change, or is represented as a case study among others. When individual African countr...