Structural adjustment and agricultural performance in Sub‐Saharan Africa 1980–87

Mosley, Paul; Smith, Lawrence D.

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“…A wave of studies (e.g. Cornia et al, 1987;Nicholas, 1988;Mosley and Smith, 1989;Anyinam, 1989) emerged which showed that liberalized trade, privatization and a diminished responsibility of the state had catalyzed very little local economic development. The gulf between the rich and poor was broadening, and in many cases, the latter's situation had worsened considerably.…”

Section: Formalization Of Small-scale Gold Mining In Sub-saharan Africamentioning

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Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review

Hilson

McQuilken

2014

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Section: Formalization Of Small-scale Gold Mining In Sub-saharan Africamentioning

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Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review

Hilson

McQuilken

2014

The Extractive Industries and Society

154

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“…Agriculture accounts for the bulk of the gross domestic product (GDP), exports, and employment in many African countries. Therefore, the success of any shift in macroeconomic policy ought to be determined by the productivity within the sector (Mosley and Smith 1989). The question is how to measure the impact of changes in many inter‐dependent macroeconomic policies associated with the SAP reforms on agricultural productivity.…”

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Macroeconomic Policy Reforms and Productivity Growth in African Agriculture

Ojede¹,

Mugera²,

Seo³

2013

Contemporary Economic Policy

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This article employs a two‐stage procedure to investigate the impact of macroeconomic policy reforms on the agricultural productivity growth of 33 African countries from 1981 to 2001. In the first stage, we measure agricultural productivity using a nonparametric Malmquist productivity index. In the second stage, we build a generalized method of moments (GMM) model with a measure of structural adjustment program (SAP) intensity as a key instrument for macroeconomic policy reforms. We also control for the effects of globalization, civil violence, level of development of physical and financial infrastructure, and other economic variables as well as natural resource factors that directly affect agricultural productivity. Our results indicate a strong positive correlation between the extent of SAP intensity and agricultural productivity, suggesting that the macroeconomic policy reforms improved agricultural productivity growth in the sample countries. (JEL E6, O13, O41)

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“…No single pattern of adjustment has emerged in the farming sector, given the varieties of pre-reform development strategies across countries, the different ways in which market policies were implemented in the agricultural sector, and the various cropping systems and climatic conditions (Demery and Addison, 1987;Gibbon et al, 1993;Meagher, 1991;Mosley and Smith, 1989). Farmers in export sectors where markets have been liberalized seem to have done better than those in food crop sectors, although both have been seriously hit by rising input costs associated with subsidy withdrawal, devaluation, and erosions of infrastructural and technical support.…”

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Economic Restructuring, Coping Strategies and Social Change: Implications for Institutional Development in Africa

Bangura¹

1994

Development and Change

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Since the early 1980s, most African countries have experienced unsatisfactory rates of economic growth and profound changes in livelihood systems, which have affected the way their modern institutions function. However, when confronted with evidence of poor economic performance in countries undergoing adjustment, the international financial institutions often blame governments for their lack of political will in regulating the activities of bureaucrats and vested interests. They recommend policies aimed at restructuring public sector institutions through privatization, public expenditure cuts, retrenchment, new structures of incentives and decentralization. Despite efforts to implement these measures in a number of countries, the problems of low institutional capacity remain. Two key contradictions appear to explain why institutions have been largely ineffective in crisis economies in Africa: the growing contradiction between the interests of bureaucratic actors and the goals they are supposed to uphold; and the contradiction between the institutional set‐up itself and what goes on in the wider society. To understand how these contradictions work, it is necessary to look more closely at the set of values and relationships that anchor institutions on social systems. The issues here are social compromise and cohesion; institutional socialization and loyalties; overarching sets of values; and political authority to enforce rules and regulations. The crises in these four areas of social relations, which are linked to the ways households and groups have coped with recession and restructuring, have altered Africa's state institutions so that it has become difficult to carry out meaningful development programmes and public sector reforms without addressing the social relations themselves.

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Structural adjustment and agricultural performance in Sub‐Saharan Africa 1980–87

Cited by 21 publications

References 12 publications

Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review

Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review

Macroeconomic Policy Reforms and Productivity Growth in African Agriculture

Economic Restructuring, Coping Strategies and Social Change: Implications for Institutional Development in Africa

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