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Inequality in Africa: Political Elites, Proletariat, Peasants and the Poor
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Inequality in Africa: Political Elites, Proletariat, Peasants and the Poor Paperback - 1988

by E. Wayne Nafziger


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This study of inequality in Africa, first published in 1988, not only rejected the orthodox approach of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which neglected income distribution and advocated greater external economic reliance, but also the statist Lagos Plan of Action, which supported comprehensive planning, large capital-intensive state firms, and increased government intervention in peasant prices. Wayne Nafziger's political economy analysis shows how the colonial legacy, the contemporary global economic system, and the ruling elites' policies of co-opting labour, favouring urban areas, distributing benefits communally, and spending on education to maintain inter-generational class exacerbate discrepancies between regions, urban and rural areas, and bourgeoisie and workers, even under 'African socialism'. The author's policy discussion eschews technoeconomic solutions, arguing that reducing inequality requires democratising political participation as well as economic control.

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Because of the population growth in Africa, maintaining past trends means degrading human dignity for the majority, with a rural population surviving on intolerable toil, disastrous land scarcity, and worsening urban crisis, with more shanty towns, congested roads, unemployed, beggars, crime, and misery alongside the few unashamedly demonstrating greater conspicuous consumption, shopping at national department stores fill with luxury imports.

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  • Title Inequality in Africa: Political Elites, Proletariat, Peasants and the Poor
  • Author E. Wayne Nafziger
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 220
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1988-08-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780521317030 / 0521317037
  • Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.89 x 5.98 x 0.58 in (22.58 x 15.19 x 1.47 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Africa - Economic policy, Poor - Africa
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87024263
  • Dewey Decimal Code 339.209
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