Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State and the World Bank in Guinea

by J. Clapp

Overview

With the adoption of a World Bank-sponsored structural adjustment programme in the mid-1980s, Guinea underwent a dramatic change in its economic and agricultural policies. The country's experience over the past decade illustrates some of the most pressing problems encountered by African countries pursuing economic reform. This book analyses these difficulties by examining the adjustment experience in Guinea as it affected the country's overall political economy and the agricultural sector in particular. It also places this case within the broader context of African adjustment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333666067
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/05/1997
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

JENNIFER CLAPP

Table of Contents

Preface List of Abbreviations and Acronyms List of Tables Map of Guinea Introduction Africa, Agriculture and the World Bank Guinea's Agricultural Sector in Historical Perspective The Politics of Reform Implementation Agricultural Performance and Farmer Decision-Making Trade and Marketing of Agricultural Products The Bank's Agricultural Project and Policy Strategy The World Bank and Africa's Future Prospects Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

Analyzes difficulties encountered by Guinea in the wake of a World Bank-sponsored structural adjustment program in the mid-1980s, focusing on the agricultural sector. Looks at factors such as poor donor coordination, political challenges to the state, and difficult international economic conditions to explain the initial failure of the reform program, and discusses prospects for the new approach to adjustment promoted by the World Bank in Africa in the 1990s. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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