Publications

This research report traces all the main developments in IMF-World Bank policies in Uganda. Most of the material concerns the three IMF standby arrangements with Uganda for 1981-1984 and the World Bank Group's Structural Adjustment Programmes. These programmes introduced...

This study examines the economic management strategies adopted by the Government of Cameroon. Economic planning in Cameroon has been anchored to the principles of planned liberalism, self-reliant development, balanced development and social justice. These concepts are...

Most of the papers included in this volume were presented at a symposium held at Uppsala University, Sweden, in August 1987. An introduction by A. Jacobson-Widding and W. van Beek on the theme developed in the book, African folk models of fertility, is followed by three parts...

In order to understand the ways in which democratization can come about, this article analyses the case of Zanzibar, which has embraced democracy successfully despite a history of violent sectional strife. Only after the fall of Aboud Jumbe in 1984 did democracy extend itself...

Seasonality research can offer an explanation for the persistent poverty in the rural areas of Third World countries. Besides, it offers a framework in which research questions originating from a variety of disciplines can be included. This book contains five lectures...

Les années 1980 en Afrique du Sud peuvent être caractérisées sous bien des aspects comme une période de transition, et l'UDF a été le vecteur principal des changements intervenus pendant cette période qui a commencé avec un héritage important de Black Consciousness et...