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The two papers present proposals for the economic reconstruction of Ethiopia, basd on the interests of the peasants and other poor groups. In the first paper, Fantu Cheru outlines a...

This working paper is an analytical review of four recent studies on "women and the state" or the gendered state. Three of these books include studies from countries in Africa...

This paper presents the preliminary findings of a baseline survey of 1800 households in three different agricultural development divisions which was undertaken by the Centre for Social Research in Malawi...

Malawi has been regarded by the World Bank as a "strong adjuster", since the introduction of its first structural adjustment programme in 1981. This paper outlines the main effects of...

The paper offers a contribution to the analysis of the peasant-state relationship, based on experiences from Ethiopia. It argues that in a country where the peasants represent almost 90 per...

In this paper it is suggested that the present modalities for North-South cooperation, and especially the current structural adjustment programmes being unilaterally imposed on developing countries in Africa and elsewhere,...

(Published in cooperation with Chr. Michelsen Institute and United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (Seminar Proceedings no. 26))

(Published in cooperation with Norwegian Association for Development Research; Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsen Institute)

This paper identifies the major environmental issues in Mozambique under the present conditions of war and economic crisis, which differ considerably from most African countries. Secondly, it specifies those sectors...

The article reviews the discussion on the issue of land reform within Zimbabwe and the various explanations advanced in the literature of why redistribution of assets in land from the...

The paper contributes towards an assessment of the statistical context in which the Namibia Socio-Economic Database might be employed in Namibia. It discusses from a comparative perspective issues likely to...

The paper contains the report from a study tour in Tanzania - April/May 1990. The objective of the tour was to investigate the possibilities for Norwegian involvement in research concerning...

Report and papers from a six hours session by the EADI Working Group on Information and Documentation in Oslo, June 1990. A variety of topics were covered: Documentation in Namibia,...

"Pure" matrilineal systems are said to be "doomed" because they are incompatible with economic growth. The author argues that descent systems are not always changed by forces beyond control but...

"Tradition" has neither been static or blissful, nor are colonial powers to be blamed entirely for its "decline". The historical analyses of the marriage "traditions" of the Toka from the...

This preliminary study provides an overview of international aid received by Mozambique, and brings out central issues regarding the aid policies of representative donors. The report deals particularly with aspects...

The report reviews progress under the Nordic/SADCC Initiative on expanded economic and cultural co-operation btween the Nordic countries and the SADCC Member States during the period 1986-1989. It concludes that,...

The magnitude of refugees movements in the Third World, widely perceived as an unprecedented crisis, has generated widespread concern in the West. This concern reveals itself as an ambiguous mixture...