
Structural Adjustment and Rural Labour Markets in Africa
Vali Jamal(Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 19. December 1994
Book
Hardback
XV, 186 pages
978-0-333-62979-6 (ISBN)
Description
Based on case studies of Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia, the book examines the changes in rural labour markets as a result of a decade of structural adjustment programmes. These programmes were meant to shift relative prices in favour of the agricultural sector, and, within the agricultural sector, in favour of export crops. In response, labour should have moved to the favoured sector. The case studies show that such a shift did not occur and the overview chapter elaborates the complexities of the African labour markets which ensured this outcome.
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Series
Edition
1995 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XV, 186 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-62979-6 (9780333629796)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-23820-0
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions

Book
03/1995
Palgrave Macmillan
€187.24
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Content
List of Tables - Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Adjustment Programmes and Adjustment: Confronting the New Parameters of African Economies; V.Jamal - Adjustment, Rural Labour and Inequality: Sierra Leone; J.Weeks - Structural Adjustment and Tanzania's Peasantry: Assessing the Likely Long Term Impact; M.Bienefeld - Rural Labour Markets in an Adjusting Mineral Economy: Zambia; J.Loxley - Notes - Bibliography - Index