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Structural adjustment and drought in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Author(s) -
Elbadawi Ibrahim A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1328(199609)8:5<581::aid-jid373>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - developing country , development economics , economic reform , land reform , structural adjustment , population , natural resource economics , economics , business , economic growth , geography , agriculture , china , market economy , demography , archaeology , sociology
The extremely severe droughts which have hit Africa in recent years appear to have impacted negatively on its development much more seriously than droughts in other regions of the developing world. Such droughts, it appears, both acted as a trigger to the adoption of structural reforms in some countries and aggravated the initial adverse effects (including environmental effects) of such reforms. The policy implication of the latter finding is that the reform requirement for drought‐prone countries needs to be more flexible to climatic conditions, and that in some countries reform of land tenure population policy and research and extension policy need to accompany reform of trade and pricing policies.