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Analysis of policy reform and structural adjustment programs in Zimbabwe with emphasis on agriculture and trade
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996This study reflects on the accomplishments and challenges of Zimbabwe’s recent economic reform initiatives. The report should serve as a guiding tool for government and donors alike in planning future and on-going economic reform and structural adjustment efforts in Zimbabwe, especially with regard to incorporating “social dimensions of adjustment” considerations in such reform programs.DocumentPolicy reforms and structural adjustment in Zambia : the case of agriculture and trade
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996This reportreflects on the accomplishments and challenges of the country’s recent economic reform initiatives. This report should serve as guide for government and donors in planning future and on-going economic reform and structural adjustment efforts in Zambia, especially with regard to incorporating “social dimensions of adjustment” considerations in such reform programs.DocumentComparative analysis of economic reform and structural adjustment programs in Eastern Africa with emphasis on trade policies
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996In view of the potential implications of structural adjustment and economic reform programs for subregional and regional trade, food security, and overall economic growth and stability, this study is a step in the direction of informing Governments in the region and the international community of the status and future of economic reforms, especially trade policy reforms and how they all relate toDocumentStructural adjustment and agricultural policy reform in South Africa / Johan Van Rooyen ... [et al.]
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996This study offers an opportunity to reflect on the accomplishments and challenges of economic reform initiatives undertaken in pre-democratic South Africa.DocumentStimulating indigenous agribusiness development in the northern communal areas of Namibia : a concept paper
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1997This concept paper proposes (a) market driven farm and off-farm entrepreneurial options, that could take advantage of the existing opportunities, thus leading to the creation of indigenous oriented economic growth and (b) empowerment of the small and medium scale private enterprises to create an enabling environment conducive for equitable growth of their businesses.DocumentStimulating indigenous agribusiness development in Zimbabwe : a concept paper
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1997This concept paper proposes (a) market-driven farm and off-farm entreprenerial options that could take advantage of Zimbabwe's Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) achievements, thus leading to the creation of indigenous oriented economic growth, and (b) em-powerment of the small and medium scale private enterprises to create an enabling environment conducive for equitable growth of thDocumentMalawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture
Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate.DocumentLiberalization, Globalization and Income Distribution
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1999Recent mainstream analyses of changes in income distribution over the post World War II period have concluded that income inequality within countries tends to be stable, that there is no strong association between growth and inequality and that, therefore, poverty is best reduced through growth-oriented, rather than distributive, policies.This paper challenges this view.DocumentExport Crop Liberalisation in Africa
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999The transfer can be considered to have been reasonably successful so far. Producer returns have generally been higher than under the former marketing arrangements and payments more prompt. But in many countries, however, the changes have led to problems, particularly with regard to the supply of production inputs.