Rural and Urban Incomes

John Weeks
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John Weeks: Middlebury College

Chapter 5 in Development Strategy and the Economy of Sierra Leone, 1992, pp 53-68 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The existence of a rural-urban ‘imbalance’, allegedly all pervasive south of the Sahara, represented a central element in the justification of virtually all structural adjustment programmes in SSA countries.1 The Bank argued this case for Sierra Leone. The existence or non-existence of a rural-urban ‘gap’, in incomes and public services, was key to the structural adjustment diagnosis and policy prescription. It served to justify a shift in income distribution from urban to rural areas on the grounds that it promoted greater equity.

Keywords: Real Wage; Farm Family; Farm Income; Wage Earner; Wage Income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11936-3_5

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