Edited volume with chapters investigating the factors affecting African urban economies

What is it about?

African urban economies in the early 21st century had been strongly influenced by two preceding decades of neoliberal structural adjustment policies imposed by the IMF and World Bank. These had very negative impacts on ordinary urban people's incomes and livelihoods and poverty levels soared. This edited volume provides analyses of these impacts on many elements of urban settlements in sub-Saharan Africa including employment, incomes, migration patterns and population growth, and housing

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Why is it important?

Understanding the devastating impact of the policies of the 1980s and 1990s on Africa's urban populations is required if its relative lack of decent employment and industrialisation is to be understood.