Download or read book Structural Adjustment in Africa written by Bonnie Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-11-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing overviews of states and sectors, classes and companies in the new international division of labour, this series treats polity-economy dialectics at global, regional and national levels. This volume in the series looks at the complexities of structural adjustment in Africa.
Download or read book Small Enterprises Adjusting to Liberalization in Five African Countries written by Ronald L. Parker and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study incorporates data from comparable surveys across five African countries - Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, and Tanzania - to analyze how small and micro enterprises have been positively and negatively affected by policy liberalization schemes. Som
Download or read book Negotiating Structural Adjustment in Africa written by Hilary Hodgson and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1994 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is clear need to formulate alternative approaches to the present structural adjustment programs in Africa. These programs have not ventured beyond economic stabilization, sanitization of public finances, and an ideological reorientation toward minimal government. Insufficient attention to the links between macroeconomic policy changes and microeconomic behavior has negatively affected investment and activity. The UNDP commissioned the Food Studies Group at the University of Oxford to analyze recent experiences and to provide an appropriate set of development objectives. Their findings provide essential reading for all those involved in preparing, negotiating, and implementing adjustment programs.
Download or read book Industrial Change in Africa written by J. Gunning and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-12-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a unique and extensive data survey of manufacturing firms in Zimbabwe to analyse firm-level responses to economic liberalization. The focus on labour and financial markets, investment behaviour, the determinants of entrepreneurship, productivity growth and efficiency, export performance, firm growth, and resource shifts between different manufacturing activities. Understanding these determinants is crucial evaluating the success or failure of structural adjustment.
Download or read book Stabilization and Structural Adjustment written by Finn Tarp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals and examines the relevance of the macroeconomic theory and models behind recommendations for stabilization and structual adjustment. Alternaive analytical approaches are discusses. This is done on the basis of an up-to-date review of developments in sub-saharan Africa during the 1980's and within a common analytical framework.
Download or read book Post adjustment Theories written by Hakim Ben Hammouda and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The different approaches to post-adjustment development economics are all examined in this study. The aim is to combine the critical reaction to structural adjustment with the new approaches of a number of schools of thought which seek to go further than the Washington consensus. The first part focuses on recent economic debates influencing current trends in development theory. The second part examines the schools of thought which have sought to renew recent conceptions of development economics by returning to the work of the pioneers. Part three examines recent work in the institutionalist and conventionalist approaches and part four is devoted to the new structuralist and Keynesian approaches. The last part deals with the cultural approach.
Download or read book African Voices on Structural Adjustment written by Codesria and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2003 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Voices on Structural Adjustment presents 14 in-depth studies on the history and future of structural adjustment in Africa. Each study appraises the performance of structural adjustment policies (SAPs) with respect to a particular sector or issue. Each evaluates the compatibility of SAPs with the requirements for long-term development in Africa. And, most importantly, each presents a truly African perspective. The contributors represent an outstanding collection of leading African economists and development experts. This volume is intended as a companion to Our Continent, Our Future. It will appeal to students, professors, academics, and researchers in development, economics, and African studies; professionals in donor organizations around the world; and economic policymakers in both the governmental and non-governmental sectors
Download or read book Adjustment in Africa written by Ishrat Husain and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Environment Paper 4. This survey describes the factors that affect tree cultivation and clearance by Kenyan farmers. These factors include agricultural conditions, product markets, the family life cycle, income, and changing demands for household labor--especially demands caused by labor migration. The author explains why removing structural constraints on rural land markets might reduce the incentive to start and maintain woodlots. He also details why policies that seek to create forests may conflict with programs that generate rural employment.
Download or read book Structural Adjustment and Socio economic Change in Sub Saharan Africa written by Peter Gibbon and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarises the results of work at the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet/Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) on the impact of structural adjustment implementation on the economies, states and societies of sub-Saharan Africa. It consists of two essays and an appendix listing research projects which have been/are being carried out under the auspices of NAI. The first essay raises a series of conceptual and methodological questions in the context of a presentation of some of the main empirical results obtained from extended field work carried out during the course of 1992 and 1993 in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The second essay presents the three main themes - private trading networks and structures, the changing political economy of land, and popular forms of social provisioning - that constitute the core of the second phase of NAI's structural adjustment research and, in so doing, provides a review of aspects of the adjustment literature. This report is, therefore, an attempt both at stock-taking and agenda-building as part of a wider quest for deepening our understanding of the structures and processes of socio-economic change associated with the crisis and adjustment years in contemporary Africa
Download or read book Structural Adjustment Reconsidered written by David E. Sahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The often emotional debate over the impact of structural adjustment on the poor in Africa has been confused by the complexity of economic reforms and their inconsistent implementation, the diversity of prior conditions, and confounding effects of external shocks. Professors Sahn, Dorosh, and Younger isolate from other factors the effect of specific policy measures associated with adjustment programs. The authors suggest that contrary to common belief, adjustment policies do not harm the poor in Africa. Reforms in fact usually benefit the poor slightly, but alone are insufficient to reduce poverty significantly.
Download or read book Leading Issues in South African Microeconomics written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Structural Adjustment and the Crisis in Africa written by David Kennett and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of six essays by leading African authorities provides an evaluation of the impact of the structural adjustment programmes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on Sub-Saharan Africa, and the alternative avenues for resolving the continent's economic and political crisis.
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 The Impact of Structural Adjustment on the Population of Africa written by Aderanti Adepoju and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Limits of Adjustment in Africa written by Poul Engberg-Pedersen and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work assesses the effects of the structural adjustment programmes in Africa. It concludes that little development has actually occurred, with a general contraction in per capita economic growth. There has also been a deterioration in the position of the worst-off economic groups.
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Download or read book Our Continent Our Future written by P. Thandika Mkandawire and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many African countries have for decades implemented the economic policies of the Bretton Woods Institution, the results have been generally unrewarding and extreme poverty and underdevelopment continues to plague the continent. This important work presents the emerging African perspective on structural adjustment issues and presents a collection of 30 individual studies from leading economists and political scientists from every corner of Africa.
