Neoliberalism, regime rurvival, and the environment: economic reform and agricultural transformation in Zimbabwe in the 1990s
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2001
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Taylor & Francis
Abstract
Economic reform in Zimbabwe under the auspices of the Bank
World Bank and IMF began in 1991. The first phase of
program, called structural economic adjustment program
(ESAP ) lasted from 1991 to 1996. The second phase, the Transformation Agenda
social and economic development of Zimbabwe (ZIMPREST) should go
until at least 2002. Much of the debate about the performance of
reform in Zimbabwe revolves around three main actors:
Government of Zimbabwe ( GOZ ) , international financial institutions
(IFIs) and the environment, particularly droughts
1991-92. This paper contributes to a broader discussion on the reform
Economic Zimbabwe in three ways : first, by describing the
outline of its economy, chronologically and structurally
politically , the second , by assessing its impact on production
agricultural , and the third , evaluating its impact on security
food of a neglected set of actors, the urban poor .
The article concludes that agricultural reform failed to reallocate
productive resources , to reorganize the spatial distribution of production
and increase access various social classes to food.
Moreover, this failure can be attributed to a combination of factors including the
post- colonial political economy dynamics orchestrated by ZANU
(PF) is not reduced. [Note: translated from French]
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Neoliberalism, Regime survival, Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), Economic Reform, Agricultural Transformation, Zimbabwe, Environment
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Logan, B.I. & Tevera, D. (2001). Neoliberalism, regime rurvival, and the environment: economic reform and agricultural transformation in Zimbabwe in the 1990s, Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue canadienne des �tudes africaines, 35(1): 99-138