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International Banking and Rural Development - The World Bank in Sub-Saharan Africa (Paperback)
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International Banking and Rural Development - The World Bank in Sub-Saharan Africa (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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Published in 1998, this book reviews two of the World Bank's
agricultural development projects in southeast Nigeria, and
concludes that the objectives of these projects - which include
reducing rural poverty and developing indigenous capacity for rural
development - have not been fully realized. This book concludes
that what these projects have achieved in the past, was the
increasing integration of the peasant's political economy into the
world's capitalist market with negative consequences. For example,
the projects emphasis on export crop production, as opposed to food
production, simply led to a diminishing capability among peasant
farmers especially in the project areas, to produce food for
themselves - while at the same time, reporting increased
productivity in export-related production. The end result is
widespread poverty amongst the poorest strata of peasant farmers
participating in the program. In addition, the book looks at the
Bank's structural adjustment programme, which in fact has the
potential to reduce whatever benefits its agricultural programs
might bring about for peasant producers.
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