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Structurally adjusted Africa : poverty, debt, and basic needs
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This work looks at the effects of structural adjustment programmes "on the ground" in sub-Saharan Africa, now one of the poorest and most heavily indebted regions in the world, partly as a conseque...
This work looks at the effects of structural adjustment programmes "on the ground" in sub-Saharan Africa, now one of the poorest and most heavily indebted regions in the world, partly as a consequence of the undifferentiated adjustment policies that have been imposed on the area.
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- Creator
- edited by David Simon [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London ; Boulder, Colo. : Pluto Press, 1995
- Physical Details
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- xx, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0745309739, 9780745309736, 0745309720, 9780745309729
- OCLC
- ocm31815413
- Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Amsterdam, Mar. 29-31, 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : the nature of structural adjustment / Chris Dixon (9 p.). -- Debt, democracy and development : Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s / David Simon (28 p.). -- Fighting fire with petrol : how to counter social ills in Africa with economic structural adjustment / Anders Närmen (12 p.). -- Regional food trade and policy in West Africa in relation to structural adjustment / Leo De Haan (22 p.). -- Medicine that might kill the patient : structural adjustment and urban poverty in Zimbabwe / Dan Tevera Impact of structural adjustment on intermediate towns and urban migrants : an example from Tanzania / Mogens Holm (18 p.). -- Structural adjustment, sugar sector development and Netherlands aid to Tanzania / Jan Sterkenburg (27 p.). -- Structural adjustment and rural development in Tanzania : the case of Makete District / Milline Mbonile (23 p.). -- Structural adjustment programmes and peasant responses in Tanzania / Claude G Mung'ong'o Structural adjustment and government consumption : Sub-Saharan Africa and industrialised countries compared / Indra Wahab (15 p.). -- Structural adjustment in comparative perspective : lessons from Pacific Asia / Conclusions : on the contextuality of structural adjustment in a not so new world order / Wim van Spengen (8 p.)
Subjects
- Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses.
- Basic needs -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic policy -- Congresses.
- Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses.
- Basic needs -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic policy -- Congresses.