Search for dissertations about: "structural adjustment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 60 swedish dissertations containing the words structural adjustment.

  2. 1. Policy Choices in African Structural Adjustment : An Exploration of Sectoral Continuity

    Author : Sarai-Anne Ikenze; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sectoral policy; economic reform; structural adjustment; Sub-Saharan Africa; International Monetary Fund;

    Abstract : Between 1980 and 2000, a number of Sub-Saharan African countries entered into conditional structural adjustment lending arrangements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in response to economic crisis and decline. Despite the fact that the crises had been due in part to long-term overdependence on primary sector activities, such as cash crop agriculture and natural resource extraction, many countries allegedly continued to prioritize these activities during structural adjustment. READ MORE

  4. 2. Structural Violence as a Constraint to African Policy Formation in the 1990s : Respositioning Education in International Relations

    Author : Catherine A Odora Hoppers; Birgit Brock-Utne; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Structural violence; policy formation; power relations; aid; discourses; geo-politics; education; knowledge; neo-liberalism; Structural Adjustment Programmes; reflexivity; transdisciplinarity; Public Policy Dialogue.; internationell pedagogik; International Education;

    Abstract : This study is a meta-analysis of the manner in which global relations impact on national level policy spaces and policy formation. As the International Financial Institutions tighten their grip through the Structural Adjustment Programmes over African countries, and donors steadily shift their ground and push conditionality beyond economic policy into institutional arrangements, the issue of political sovereignty of African countries, and of indirect rule through aid becomes a key concern. READ MORE

  5. 3. Strategies of entrepreneurship : Understanding industrial entrepreneurship and structural change in northwest Tanzania

    Author : Per Trulsson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Entrepreneurship; Structural adjustment; Institutional theory; Trust; Strategy; Unintended consequences; Societal change; Extended family; Tanzania; Industry; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : This study addresses the problem of entrepreneurial activity in an environment of institutional change. The focus is on industrial entrepreneurs in northwest Tanzania. Like many other African countries, Tanzania is today undergoing a process of structural transformation. Significant changes are introduced in the formal institutional framework. READ MORE

  6. 4. Studies in structural change and labour market adjustment

    Author : Lars Heikensten; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : During the seventies growth in the Swedish economy was lower than in the preceding decades. This was particularly true for the manufacturing sector, where the number of employed decreased. At the same time, the public sector expanded, thus avoiding a reduction in the total number of employed. READ MORE

  7. 5. Structural adjustment and poverty : the case of Kenya

    Author : Jörgen Levin; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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