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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
CZI Industrial Review
Author: Zimbabwe
Author: Hevina Smith DashwoodPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802082268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Dashwood argues that it was the class interests of the ruling elite of Zimbabwethat explains the failure of the government to devise a coherent, socially sensitive development strategy in conjunction with market-based reforms.
The Politics of Economic Reform in Zimbabwe
Author: Tor SkalnesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349137669
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In 1990 Zimbabwe embarked on economic liberalisation. The country's economic associations, notably that erstwhile proponent of protectionism, the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries, had successfully lobbied for gradual reform. While state autonomy has often been regarded as a vital condition for reform, in Zimbabwe societal groups have induced an initially recalcitrant government to reconsider its basic policies. After 1980 the government tried to limit political competition. However, because of the perceived need for racial reconciliation following the guerrilla war, it maintained dialogue with settler-dominated interest groups along the pattern of societal corporatism established in the 1930s. By contrast, African associations, particularly labour unions, have regularly been subjected to regimentation. The government, however, has listened more closely to the demands of African farmers, who want to preserve parastatal marketing and governmental determination of prices. In Zimbabwe key urban groups support liberalisation while key rural groups do not. Theories of urban bias must therefore be qualified.
Manufacturing in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1979
Author: Victor Muchineripi GwandePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847013333
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A key book on Zimbabwe's industrial policy and the relationship between manufacturing, the state, and economic interest groups.
Structural Adjustment and the Working Poor in Zimbabwe
Author: Peter GibbonPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171063694
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Presents three studies which examine the relationship between structural adjustment and changes in the social conditions of the working poor in Zimbabwe between 1990 and 1994. Includes a survey of conditions faced by formal sector workers in 18 larger-scale industrial companies in 1993, a survey of the trading patterns, consumption and intra- and interhousehold relationships of 174 urban women traders in 1992 and 1993, and a study of changes in health and health services among 327 urban households and 300 households in a peasant farming area in 1992.
Uneven Zimbabwe
Author: Patrick BondPublisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865435391
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Uneven Zimbabwe examines the influence of domestic and international financial markets and financiers in uneven development in Zimbabwe, using - and contributing to - the tools of radical political economy. Theoretically, Bond begins with criticism of the classical Marxist concepts of "finance capital" for focusing on institutional characteristics and failing to grasp underlying dynamics. Instead, as economic crisis tendencies emerge, the power of finance periodically intensifies, temporarily displacing crisis through time and space and across geographical scales. But the limits of the financial solution become evident when paper assets delink from the productive assets they are meant to represent, as well as in the role that finance plays in amplifying uneven development across different economic sectors, spaces and scales.
Zimbabwe: The Link Between Politics and the Economy
Author: Godfrey KanyenzePublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1779224087
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
In this accessible and authoritative book, Godfrey Kanyenze provides a comprehensive and far-reaching analysis of the socio-economic development in Zimbabwe in light of the expanding authoritarianism and the ongoing destruction of democratic institutions during the four decades after independence. Kanyenze describes the various phases of the socio-economic development starting with 1980 when the people of Zimbabwe saw their hard-won independence and new democracy as a promise for a "better life for all". Kanyenze highlights how by dismantling all barriers of economic and legal restraint, and that despite being necessary, The land reform programme put the political and financial interests of the elite before those of the people which continues to this day. Kanyenze reveals the governmental attacks on civil society, and notes how economic policy was not even part of an "authoritarian bargain", an implicit arrangement between ruling elites and citizens whereby citizens relinquish political freedom in exchange for public goods. And he concludes this analysis with a current update of Zimbabwe today, where citizens have nothing -neither political freedom nor public goods. This impressive and gripping account of an authoritarian capitalist system and a country in decline is a must-read for students, researchers, policymakers and those who want to better understand how politics and the economy, interests, conflicts, and power work together.
Zambia
Author: Marcia BurdettePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000009602
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This accessible case study offers a fully rounded picture of Zambia's course since independence, chronicling the periods of boom and decline after the fall in the price of copper around the mid-1970s. The author advocates an internally oriented economic strategy to retain industries and livelihoods and investigates the ability of the current leadership to achieve this.
Constraints on the Success of Structural Adjustment Programmes in Africa
Author: Charles HarveyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349243736
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book reports why orthodox structural adjustment measures do not have the expected results in Africa. Orthodox measures may be necessary but are frequently not sufficient because of structural factors, some peculiar to individual countries, some found more widely. Six chapters report on extensive fieldwork in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe; three chapters compare countries in Africa (recovery from disaster, labour markets, new financial markets) and one makes comparisons with Asia and Latin America of employment policies.
Beggar Your Neighbours
Author: Joseph HanlonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780852553077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
..". comprehensive in its coverage, exacting in its standards of description and interpretation, and almost faultless in its use of source material and existing literature... " -- Anti-Apartheid News ..". an excellent compendium of information on the military and economic power that South Africa applies in dealing with its neighbors." -- Foreign Service Journal ..". important for the shaping of Western policy toward South Africa." -- The Book Exchange ..". impressive... indispensable." -- Third World Book Review "This is a very important book." -- Social Dynamics Hanlon pieces together the details of South Africa's military attacks on its neighbors and relates them to the control the South African state exercises through its economic power.
