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Acknowledgments

The Contributors

Introduction
Kwesi Kwaa Prah and Abdel Ghaffar Mohammed Ahmed

Environmental and Development :An Essential Link for Sustainable Development
Hezekiel M. Mushala

Foreign Aid and the Poverty Menace in Tanzania: An Overview of Recent Experiences
Sverine M. Rugumamu and Benjamin Mutagwaba

Questioning the Land Question

Agrarian Transition, Land Tenure, and Rural Development in the Former Settler Colonies of Southern Africa
Fred T. Hendricks

Informal Sector, Democracy and Employment Options in the Eastern Cape of South Africa

The case of Parallel Traders
Nsolo J. Mijere

The Economic Structural Adjustment Programme and Urban Survival Strategies in Zimbabwe
C. Madzokere

Revenue Productivity Implications of Kenya's Tax System
Nelson H.W. Wamire

Ethnicity and State

Revisiting the Salience of Ethnicity in South African Politics
Dominic Milazi Wawire

Divestiture and Dependence

Reflections on Lesotho's Privatisation Programme
Francis K. Makoa

Reaching Out to Stakeholders

The Impact of Agricultural Reforms on Poverty Alleviation in Rural Kenya
Mary Omasa

The Nature and Implications of Political and Economic Reforms in Zambia
Henry M. Sichingabula

Stabilisation and Adjustment Programmes in Uganda 1981-1995
Erisa O. Ochieng

Commercialisation and Privatisation The Prospects for Indigenisation in the Zimbabwean Manufacturing Industry
Evelyn Sandra Pangeti

Consolidated Bibliography

Abstract:

Compilation of papers for the Fifth Congress of OSSREA. The papers treated reform issues pertinent to the continent as a whole, as well as those particular to the sub-region. Theoretical reviews, country case studies comparative studies, historical evaluations on the reform process and their outcomes were encouraged. The contributions were presented under five major sub-themes: political reforms, economic reforms, the socio-economic implications of the political reforms, the socio-political impact of economic reforms, and the development strategies for Africa in the 1990s and beyond. Two volumes of proceedings emerged out of the transactions of the congress. The present volume (vol. 1) deals with political and economic issues.