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Structural adjustment, agricultural development, and the poor : lessons from the Malawian experience
- Title
- Structural adjustment, agricultural development, and the poor : lessons from the Malawian experience / Uma Lele.
- Author
- Lele, Uma J.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HD2133.5 .L44 1989 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 20 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
- Summary
- The structural adjustment efforts under way since the early 1980s have emphasized the liberalization of agricultural prices and markets and have led to a vigorous debate about the appropriate roles of the private and public sectors. This paper examines the causes of state intervention prior to independence as well as post-independence experience with marketing parastatals and cooperatives in Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania. This analysis is followed by an overview of the content and outcomes of the marketing and pricing liberalization programs. The focus is on the pricing and marketing of traditional export and food crops, which in these countries constitute well over 90 percent of the area harvested, value added and employment created in agriculture. The paper is not concerned with dairy, livestock or horticultural crops - areas in which government intervention has been less obtrusive and in which the private sector has played an important role.
- Series Statement
- MADIA discussion paper ; 9
- Uniform Title
- MADIA discussion paper ; 9.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-20).
- ISBN
- 0821313258
- 9780821313251
- LCCN
- 89022760
- OCLC
- ocm20319816
- 20319816
- SCSB-1896007
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library