Zimbabwe's Fight To The Finish

by Moore

Overview

This book challenges the Western interpretation that poor governance under President Mugabe is the sole cause of the Zimbabwean crisis. It considers inherited and highly unequal colonial structures, and the impoverishing impact of an IMF and World Bank.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317846970
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

John L. Moore taught in Zimbabwe during the early 1990s as an Australian Volunteer Abroad and has returned several times since as a researcher in development studies from the School of Social Science and Planning at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction Making Sense of the Chaos; Chapter 1 Rhodesian Political Economy, 1890–1962; Chapter 2 The Skewed Fortune of the UDI Economy; Chapter 3 The African Experience of SAPs and the Global Debate; Chapter 4 The Demise of a Macroeconomic Compromise; Chapter 5 Maize and Cotton: National Performance under the SAP and the Plight of Shiri Household at Muzvezve Resettlement; Chapter 6 Exposure, Defence and Fate: the Case of Shumba and Mukanya; Chapter 7 The National Poverty Struggle, the SAP and the Tribulations of Chiti and the Chitungwiza Blind; Chapter 8 Zimbabwe Ruptures under the SAP; Conclusion;