[PDF] Structural Adjustment And Socio Economic Change In Sub Saharan Africa eBook

Author : Peter Gibbon
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789171063977

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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

Author : Kempe Ronald Hope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429686757

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First published in 1997, this volume is intended to make a contribution to both the literature and the contentious debate on the relationship between structural adjustment and reconstruction and development in Africa, as seen from the multidisciplinary perspective of academics and practitioners working in Africa on African development problems and issues. The implementation of structural adjustment in Africa has spawned a considerable, and still on-going, debate with vociferous advocates on both sides of the issue, particularly with respect to the efficacy of structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) as an antidote to Africa’s development crisis. This book contributes to that debate with a rich mixture of analytical views and ideas covering a wide range of countries and sectors on the role and impact of structural adjustment programmes on the process of reconstruction and development in Africa.

Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 155250204X

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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.

Author : Rolph van der Hoeven
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN :

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Cloth Edition. Much has been learned about the need to modify structural adjustment policies and to apply them in appropriate ways. This book brings together the theory of researchers and the practical experience of policymakers.

Author : Finn Tarp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134891989

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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.

Author : Gabriele Geier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135207690

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According to the FAO, one person in three in sub-Saharan Africa suffers from malnutrition, and one in seven is in danger of dying. Most African countries no longer seem capable of ensuring that their people have access to sufficient food. Given the failure of past efforts the objectives of food security policies and their effectiveness have to be reconsidered. This book shows that the debate on food security policies has changed with the passage of time. The entitlement debate triggered by A. Sen had a major influence on this change but, the bearing of socio-economic structures on the food security of African households and their individual members are still not fully recognised.

Author : Robert Lensink
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Offers an overview of the debate on adjustment programmes financed by the Wold Bank and the IMF in Africa during the 1980s. Compares Africa with several other developing regions. Describes the structure of the World Bank and the IMF, and their credit facilities for financing adjustments.

Author : David Kennett
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Ed Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1135099529

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Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts examines the problems associated with Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and reveals the damaging impacts they can have. The book looks at how the debt crisis of the 1970's forced developing countries to seek external help and then reviews what constitutes as a standard adjustment programme, detailing the political, economic, social and environmental impacts of SAPs. The final section draws together theories and political responses and presents a case for alternatives to the programmes.