Structural Adjustment And Women Informal Sector Traders In Harare Zimbabwe

Author : Rodreck Mupedziswa,Perpetua Gumbo
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171064354

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Structural Adjustment and Women Informal Sector Traders in Harare, Zimbabwe by Rodreck Mupedziswa,Perpetua Gumbo Pdf

Most attempts to study the informal sector have tended to emphasize uniformity of experiences. Where an effort has been made to develop a more nuanced understanding, the assumption has always been that people move from lower to higher level activities that coincide with increased opportunities for accumulation. This report challenges both notions. Drawing on the experiences of women informal sector traders in Harare, Zimbabwe, and using a longitudinal study approach, the authors document differentiation within the sector amidst generalized decline in working and living conditions. Far from being a site of accumulation, the authors show that the informal sector during the era of adjustment is a site of bare survival in which people work ever longer hours for ever-diminishing incomes on which many competing claims are made within and outside the household.

Author : Rodreck Mupedziswa,Perpetua Gumbo
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171064699

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Women Informal Traders in Harare and the Struggle for Survival in an Environment of Economic Reforms by Rodreck Mupedziswa,Perpetua Gumbo Pdf

This report summarizes the results of the fourth and final round of interviews carried out among informal sector women traders in Harare, Zimbabwe as part of a longitudinal study of their conditions of work and livelihood in the context of economic crisis and structural adjustment.

Author : Peter Gibbon
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171063692

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Structural Adjustment and the Working Poor in Zimbabwe by Peter Gibbon Pdf

Presents three studies which examine the relationship between structural adjustment and changes in the social conditions of the working poor in Zimbabwe between 1990 and 1994. Includes a survey of conditions faced by formal sector workers in 18 larger-scale industrial companies in 1993, a survey of the trading patterns, consumption and intra- and interhousehold relationships of 174 urban women traders in 1992 and 1993, and a study of changes in health and health services among 327 urban households and 300 households in a peasant farming area in 1992.

Author : Guy C. Z. Mhone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Informal sector (Economics)
ISBN : OCLC:50817375

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The Impact of Structural Adjustment on the Urban Informal Sector in Zimbabwe by Guy C. Z. Mhone Pdf

Author : Kathleen Sheldon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442262935

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Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kathleen Sheldon Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on individual African women in history, politics, religion, and the arts; on important events, organizations, and publications.

Author : Sam Moyo
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171064575

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Land Reform Under Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe by Sam Moyo Pdf

This study represents a first systematic effort to document Zimbabwe "s new land uses during the years of economic crisis, the role of the state in promoting them, the differentiation associated with them, not only between black and white farmers, but also among them, and the implications of all these for the political economy of the Zimbabwean land question. The fact that some of the new land uses avoid redistribution of clearly under-utilised large scale commercial farms suggests that the Zimbabwean land question will remain a live political issue for a long time.

Author : Grace Ongile
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171064400

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Gender and Agricultural Supply Responses to Structural Adjustment Programmes by Grace Ongile Pdf

This study investigates the gender implications of agricultural sector reform in Kenya. The author focuses on smallholder tea production with the aim of pinpointing the factors that influence the adoption of tea among male and female farmers, assessing female farmers perceptions of the changes in living standards over the research period, and suggesting appropriate policy reforms to ensure that women 's interests are taken into account in the design of agricultural reforms.

Author : Ayo Olukotun
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9171065245

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Repressive State and Resurgent Media Under Nigeria's Military Dictatorship, 1988-98 by Ayo Olukotun Pdf

This study documents a crucial dimension of the resistance of Nigerian civil society to a repressive and monumentally corrupt military state in the late 1980s and 1990s in Nigeria. Employing a neo-Gramscian theoretical framework, the study relates how a section of the media defied censorship laws, outright bans, incarceration and the assassination of opposition figures, to prosecute the struggle for democracy. It captures the tensions and contradictions between a pliant section of the media which sought to legitimise the state and a critical section of the same media which, in alliance with radical civil society, invented rebellious outlets to carry on the struggle against dictatorship. The study seeks to make fresh departures by documenting not only the role of the national media in the throes of democratic struggle, but that of the international media whose role was influential in the years studied. Finally the report offers empirical proof of the mechanisms by which a vibrant civil society can curb the ravages of a predatory state in an African country. Book jacket.

Author : Abel Chikanda,Godfrey Tawodzera
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920596316

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Informal Entrepreneurship and Cross-Border Trade between Zimbabwe and South Africa by Abel Chikanda,Godfrey Tawodzera Pdf

Zimbabwe has witnessed the rapid expansion of informal cross-border trading (ICBT) with neighbouring countries over the past two decades. Beginning in the mid-1990s when the country embarked on its Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), a large number of people were forced into informal employment through worsening economic conditions and the decline in formal sector jobs. The countrys post-2000 economic col-lapse resulted in the closure of many industries and created market opportunities for the further expansion of ICBT. This report, part of SAMPs Growing Informal Cities series, sought to provide a current picture of ICBT in Zimbabwe by interviewing a sample of 514 Harare-based informal entrepreneurs involved in cross-border trading with South Africa.

Author : Tim Kelsall
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9171065334

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Contentious Politics, Local Governance and the Self by Tim Kelsall Pdf

The Governance Agenda is the framework that currently organizes the West’s relations with Africa. The present work is an attempt to see Governance through the lens of a contemporary, local history. The report analyzes three periods of contentious politics at local level in Tanzania and two multi-party elections. It provides a window on mismanagement in local government, it examines the intervention by national and local elites in district conflicts, and it points to the difficulties ordinary people face in holding their leaders to account. The argument of the report is that current approaches to the study of Governance overlook an essential ingredient for its potential success: namely, the sociological conditions in which forms of collective action conducive to improved political accountability become possible at a grassroots level. The analysis aims to show that economic diversification and multiple livelihoods have given rise to a reticular social structure in which individuals find it difficult to combine to hold their leaders to account. People have fragmented identities formed in networks of social relations, which impedes the emergence of strong collective identities appropriate to effective social movements.

Author : Göran Therborn
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9171065369

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African Families in a Global Context by Göran Therborn Pdf

The family is one of the most important institutions of African societies. Where is it going today? How is it affected by global processes, cultural and political as well as economic? How does it compare with family developments in other parts of the world? These are questions which this book addresses. The contributors deal with the African family in a comparative global context, focusing on patriarchy, sexuality and marriage, and fertility; biological and social reproduction in Ghana under conditions of globalization and structural adjustment; Nigerian marriage relations under the impact of current conditions and; family changes in the North (Britain) from a family perspective of the South (South Africa).

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 917106494X

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Singing Culture by Ezra Chitando Pdf

"This study examines the historical development, social, political and economic significance of gospel music in Zimbabwe. It approaches music with Christian theological ideas and popular appeal as a cultural phenomenon with manifold implications. Applying a history of religious approach to the study of a widespread religious phenomenon, the study seeks to link religious studies with popular culture. It argues that gospel music represents a valuable entry point into a discussion of contemporary African cultural production. Gospel music successfully blends the musical traditions of Zimbabwe, influences from other African countries, and music styles from other parts of the world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Marina Dabić,Léo-Paul Dana,Dina Modestus Nziku,Veland Ramadani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030989668

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Women Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa by Marina Dabić,Léo-Paul Dana,Dina Modestus Nziku,Veland Ramadani Pdf

According to a 2018 World Bank report, Africa is the only region with more women than men choosing to become entrepreneurs – a phenomenon that is not the subject of adequate discussion. This book reveals the latest research-based understanding of the entrepreneurial activities of women in sub-Saharan Africa. Specially invited subject experts present salient dimensions of entrepreneurship by African women, from environmental factors to motivations and influencers as well as financial and non-financial constraints, and highlight the significant role of cultural differences. This book provides a mixture of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical research, and fills the knowledge gap by presenting a wide range of opportunities and challenges faced by sub-Saharan African women entrepreneurs. This book will help policy makers and academic researchers in understanding the role of institutions and entrepreneurship policy in building a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem in the region.

Author : Lene Bull-Christiansen
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9171065393

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Tales of the Nation by Lene Bull-Christiansen Pdf

In light of the uses and misuses of history in Zimbabwean politics in recent years, this research report focuses on how versions of the country "s liberation war history have become a site of struggle over the definition of Zimbabwean national identity. As "identity politics" often do, Zimbabwean nationalism draws on a wide field of cultural symbols of identity and political discourses of inclusion and exclusion. Therefore, the report takes a cross-disciplinary approach to the issue of national identity by "mapping out" the imaginary field of Zimbabwean nationalism. This approach opens up the possibility of cross-reading the political discourses of the President and the ruling party ZANU (PF) with opposing voices such as those in the works of the author Yvonne Vera. This cross-reading shows how Vera "s novels and the political discourses participate in the struggle over Zimbabwean national identity by offering different versions of the nation "s history in the form of "patriotic history," "feminist nationalism," or narratives of difference. In this way the research report adds to our understanding of power and resistance in Zimbabwean politics of national identity.

Author : Francis Augustin Akindès
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9171065318

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The Roots of the Military-political Crises in Cote D'Ivoire by Francis Augustin Akindès Pdf

With the coup d???etat of 24 December 1999 and the politico-military conflict that started on 19 September 2002, C??te d???Ivoire broke with its tradition of political stability, which had served as a model in the West African sub-region. It is now facing an unprecedented crisis that is not only jeopardizing the continuity of the state, but has also introduced a culture of violence into the society. This study has three objectives. The primary one is to understand the nature of this socio-political crisis, and what is at stake in it. Secondly, the study examines the issue of ivoirit??. Finally, it explores the escalation of violence in this socio-political crisis and the catalogue of justifications for that violence.It is argued that the recurrence of military coups d???etat in C??te d???Ivoire signifies the delegitimization of the modes of regulation built on the tontine system, and calls for a renewal of the political grammar and socio-political regulatory modalities around integrating principles that have yet to be devised.