Social change and economic reform in Africa

Abstract

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 economic reform programme's impact against this background.

<p>Contents: Introduction: Economic Reform and Social Change in Africa / Peter Gibbon -- State-Civil Institutions Relations in Kenya in the 1980s / Mutahi G. Ngunyi and Kamau Gathiaka -- The social-Political Context of the Growth of Non-Governmental Organisations in Kenya / Karuti Kanyinga -- Agricultural Decline, Politics and Structural Adjustment in Kenya / G. K. Ikaira, M. A. Jama and J. O. Amadi -- Urban Women Workers in the Informal Sector and Economic Change in Kenya in the 1980s / Agnes Musyoki and John Aluko Orodho -- Towards a Political Economy of Adjustment in a Labour Reserve Economy: The Case of Lesotho / Michael Neocomos -- Structural Adjustment and Non-Governmental Organisations In Tanzania: A Case Study / Andrew S. Z. Kiondo -- Structural Adjustment Policies and Education in Tanzania / Joe L. P Lugalla -- Forms of Accumulation, Agriculture and Structural Adjustment in Tanzania / C. S. L. Chachage -- Structural Adjustment, State and Organised Labour in Zimbabwe / Lloyd M. Sachikonye -- Women Informal Sector Workers and Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe / V. Brand, R. Mupedziswa and P. Gumbo -- Health and Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe / Frances Chinemana and David Sanders</p>