Africa Misunderstood or Whatever Happened to the Rural-urban Gap? (Macmillan Series of ILO Studies)

Jamal, Vali/ Weeks, John

Palgrave Macmillan（1993/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 198 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780333588901
• DDC分類 330.96

Full Description

In the past African economies were (and sometimes are even now) depicted as suffering from "urban bias", which strangled the agricultural sector and eventually caused the "African crisis". Based on ten detailed case studies, this book questions that stereotype and shows the dramatic reversal in the relative positions of farmers and wage-earners in the recent past. The implications for standard adjustment programmes and urban survival strategies are discussed. Vali Jamal is the editor of a special issue of the "International Labour Review" (vol 127, no 6) on food security in Africa, and co-author of "Tunisia: Rural Labour and Structural Transformation".

Contents

List of Figures - List of Tables - Foreword - Introductory Remarks - Preface - Introduction - Economic Crisis in Africa - The Accepted Orthodoxy - The Rural-Urban Gap in East Africa - Mineral Exporting Countries: Liberia and Zambia - Remittance Economies: Somalia and Lesotho - The Rural-Urban Gap in West Africa - Distributional Dynamics and Trends - Aspects of Theory and Policy - Bibliography - Index