Changing Uganda: the dilemmas of structural adjustment & revolutionary change

861 Pages·1991·2.38 MB·English

by  Holger Bernt Hansen

Changing Uganda : The Dilemmas of
Structural Adjustment & Revolutionary
title:
Change Eastern African Studies (London,
England)
author: Hansen, Holger Bernt.; Twaddle, Michael.
publisher: Ohio University Press
isbn10 | asin: 0821410040
print isbn13: 9780821410042
ebook isbn13: 9780585066806
language: English
Uganda--Politics and government--1979- --
subject Congresses, Uganda--Social conditions-
-1979- --Congresses.
publication date: 1991
lcc: DT433.285.C47 1991eb
ddc: 967.61
Uganda--Politics and government--1979- --
subject: Congresses, Uganda--Social conditions-
-1979- --Congresses.
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Changing Uganda
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EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES
Abdul Sheriff
Slaves, Spices & Ivory in Zanzibar
Integration of an East African Commercial Empire
into the World Economy 17701873
Abdul Sheriff & Ed Ferguson
Zanzibar under Colonial Rule
Isaria N. Kimambo
Penetration & Protest in Tanzania
The Impact of the World Economy
on the Pare 18601960
T.L. Maliyamkono & M.S.D. Bagachwa
The Second Economy in Tanzania
Tabitha Kanogo
Squatters & the Roots of Mau Mau 19051963
David W. Throup
Economic and Social Origins of Mau Mau 19451953
Frank Furedi
The Mau Mau War in Perspective
David William Cohen & E.S. Atieno Odhiambo
Siaya
The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape
Bruce Berman & John Lonsdale
Unhappy Valley*
Clan, Class & State in Colonial Kenya
Bruce Berman
Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya
The Dialectic of Domination
Holger Bernt Hansen & Michael Twaddle
(Editors)
Uganda Now
Between Decay & Development
Bahru Zewde
A History of Modern Ethiopia*
18551974
*forthcoming
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Changing Uganda
The Dilemmas of Structural Adjustment & Revolutionary
Change
Edited by
Holger Bernt Hansen
& Michael Twaddle
JAMES CURREY
London
FOUNTAIN PRESS
Kampala
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Athens
HEINEMANN KENYA
Nairobi
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James Currey Ltd
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Ohio University Press
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© James Currey Ltd 1991
First published 1991
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Changing Uganda: the dilemmas of structural
adjustment and revolutionary change.
I. Hansen, Holger Bernt II. Twaddle, Michael
967.6104
ISBN 0-85255-349-8 (James Currey Cloth)
ISBN 0-85255-348-X (James Currey Paper)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Changing Uganda: the dilemmas of structural adjustment & revolutionary
change / edited by Holger Bernt Hansen & Michael Twaddle.
p. cm. (Eastern African Studies)
Based on a conference sponsored by the Danish Research Council for
Development Research, and others.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8214-1004-0. ISBN 0-8214-1005-9 (pbk.)
1. UgandaPolitics and government1979Congresses.
2. UgandaSocial conditions1979Congresses. I. Hansen,
Holger Bernt. II. Twaddle, Michael. III. Forskningsradet for
udviklingsforskning (Denmark) IV. Series: Eastern African studies
(London, England)
DT433.285.C47 1991
967.61dc20 91-25720
CIP
Typeset in 10/11pt Baskerville
by Colset Pte Ltd, Singapore
Printed in Great Britain
by Villiers Publications, London N6
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This volume, and the conference upon which it is based, were
sponsored by the Danish Council for Development Research, the
Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), the Danish
Committee for Cultural Cooperation with Developing Nations, the
Danish Social Science Research Council, Institute of Commonwealth
Studies, University of London, Carl Bro International and Danbrew
Consult. Thanks are also given to the Swedish Agency for Research
Cooperation with Developing Countries for assistance with travel
expenses. Thanks to the good offices of the Lutheran World
Federation, Kampala, and Danchurchaid, Copenhagen, copies are
available for sale in Uganda.
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CONTENTS
List of Maps ix
List of Contributors xi
1. Introduction 1
Holger Bernt Hansen & Michael Twaddle
Part One: Structural adjustment on trial
2. Structural adjustment in Uganda: the initial experience 20
K. Sarwar Lateef
3. Economic adjustment programmes in Uganda, 19858 43
E.O. Ochieng
4. IMF conditionality and structural adjustment under the 61
National Resistance Movement
Joshua B. Mugyenyi
Part Two: How people cope
5. The agrarian context of the Ugandan crisis 78
Vali Jamal
6. Women, children and a 'living wage' 98
Christine Obbo
Part Three: The health of Ugandans: the social sector
under pressure
7. Living on the edge: changing social structures in the 113
context of AIDS
George C. Bond & Joan Vincent