Download or read book Structural Adjustment and Agricultural Policy Reform in South Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Structural Adjustment the African Farmer written by Alex Duncan and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the impact of structural adjustment policies upon the incomes and welfare of Africa's peasant farmers who currently operate at very low levels of productivity of both land and labour and are confronted with low household income and inadequate food security. A common method has been applied across five countries. Analyses have been made of the links between national economic policies and the various markets in which the smallholders operate, and the services and infrastructures which influence their productive capacities. There are differences in the resource base and the level of ecological deterioration, in export opportunities, in physical infrastructure and, in particular, in the depth and nature of economic policy reforms. The team have recognised the important differences between these five countries and overcome the formidable problems of collecting agricultural data in Africa. The book provides firm evidence of the impact, both positive and negative, of structural adjustment. The editors argue for a more targeted, project-specific approach to small farmer development. This complements the current, donor interest in policy related aid support.

Download or read book Report on a Mission to South Africa on the Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies on Agriculture and Trade in Southern Africa written by G. O. I. Abalu and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Continent Our Future written by P. Thandika Mkandawire and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.

Download or read book Comparative Analysis of Structural Adjustment Programs in Southern Africa with Emphasis on Agriculture and Trade written by G. O. I. Abalu and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agriculture in Liberalizing Economies written by DINA L. UMALI and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses ways in which the role of the state in promoting agricultural growth and development may be redefined. This report presents the proceedings of the 14th World Bank Agricultural Symposium held in January 1994. The papers explore ways in which the role of the state in promoting agricultural growth and development may be redefined. They also capitalize on important lessons emerging from experiences around the world. The report suggests that changing the role of government from market domination towards the provision of a regulatory framework that facilitates private sector activity is an ongoing process rather than a one-time occurrence. The papers also illustrate the wide variety of issues and the different approaches in the various countries that are redefining the role of government in agricultural development.

Download or read book Structural Adjustment and Agriculture written by Sreenivasan Subramanian and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Transformation and Social Change in Africa written by Bernhard Nett and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes presentations made to the Inter University Center's (IUC) conference on «Agricultural Transformation in Africa during the 1990's - Present Performance and Future Trends», June 1991 in Dubrovnik. With agriculture becoming a major issue of development studies, the contributors tried to develop a comprehensive and inter-disciplinary approach to analyse trends, causes, and the development potential of structural changes and agricultural transformation policies in Africa.

Download or read book Food Security Research in Southern Africa written by J. B. Wyckoff and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Policy Reform in South Africa written by and published by Aipa. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Policy Reform in South Africa, which is part of AIPA's ongoing research series on the generation of sustainable effective rates of growth, employment expansion and equity, should be read in this context. It brings together analytical discussion papers written by some of South Africa's foremost specialists in the field of agriculture.

Download or read book Adjustment in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Policy in Africa After Adjustment written by Esbern Friis-Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Structural Adjustment and Agrarian Crisis in Africa written by P. Thandika Mkandawire and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Structural Distortions and Adjustment Programmes in the Poor Countries of Africa written by Hartmut Brandt and published by Berlin : German Development Institute. This book was released on 1985 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development research study of structural change needed to improve development policies in Africa south of Sahara - denounces agricultural policies causing food shortage, inefficient resource allocation, failure of industrial development, lack of regional cooperation, deterioration of Terms of Trade, lack of self help and popular participation; calls for agrarian reforms, administrative reforms, improved development planning, aid coordination, exchange rate adjustment, etc.; mentions role of Germany, Federal Republic. Graphs, references.

Download or read book Structural change fundamentals and growth a framework and case studies written by McMillan, Margaret and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Testing the Induced Innovation Hypothesis in South African Agriculture An Error Correction Approach written by Colin Thirtle and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November 1995 Apparently factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. And in South Africa, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small-scale farmers. Current policies sustain the bias toward labor-saving technical change, hardly appropriate for a labor-surplus economy in which small farmers in the former homelands face a chronic scarcity of land. Thirtle, Townsend, and van Zyl investigate whether factor prices matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. Each stage of the analysis corroborates the inducement hypothesis, which implies that factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. The empirical results also suggest that observed rates and biases of technological change are influenced by average farm size, by spending on research and extension, and by favorable tax and interest-rate policies. In South Africa, the authors contend, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small-scale farmers. The lobbying power of the large commercial farmers, combined with policies followed under apartheid, must have influenced the allocation of research and development funds between labor- and land-saving technical change. This will have distorted the technological bias toward labor-saving technical change, which is hardly appropriate for a labor-surplus economy in which small farmers in the former homelands face a chronic scarcity of land. These results show that factor prices do matter in agricultural production and the selection of production technology. And there seems to be merit to the World Bank's usual policy prescription -- structural adjustment and market liberalization -- for economies in which prices are controlled and distorted. They investigate the role of factor prices by applying cointegration techniques to a model of induced innovation based on the two-stage constant elasticity of substitution production function. This approach results in direct tests of the inducement hypothesis, which are applied to data for South African agriculture for the period 1947-92. They check the time series properties of the variables, establish cointegration, and construct an error correction model (ECM) that allows factor substitution to be separated from technological change. Finally, they subject the ECM formulation to tests of causality, which show that the factor price ratios induce the factor-saving biases of technological change. This paper --a product of the Office of the Director, Agriculture and Natural Resources Department -- is part of a larger effort in the department to design appropriate agricultural policies.

Download or read book Renewing Development in Sub Saharan Africa written by Ian Livingstone and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two decades of economic reform programmes, the majority of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa still face the challenge of renewing the development progress that they were achieving in the 1960s and early 1970s. Promising beginnings in the post-independence countries ended in economic collapse in the 1980s. This led to stabilization and structural adjustment reforms, but these have had disappointing results in most of the countries that applied them. In addition, local scale inter-country conflicts and internal strife within the region and post-war complications have generated new problems. This volume reviews the ensuing debates and brings together specialist contributions, to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development. A foundation is laid for designing a range of individual country-specific policy-sets, in which the strategic components are prioritized according to each country's constraints and opportunities.