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Title: | Rural Cooperation and the Renewal of Rural Socialism in Africa |
Author: | Lawrence, Peter |
Year: | 2003 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 96 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 241-248 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Africa |
Subjects: | agricultural cooperatives agrarian reform Politics and Government Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2003.9693497 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4988A0EE4FB1F500CB02 |
Abstract: | This article examines the debates over the role of cooperatives in the building of socialism and more generally their possible role as important organizations for boosting production and creating opportunities for collective decisionmaking in capitalist and transition economies. It does so by putting centre stage the benefits of rural cooperation as well as the historical pitfalls. It stresses the opportunity for cooperatives to boost the democratic imperative for socialist development even at a time of neoliberal ascendency. For sub-Saharan Africa, the agricultural sector is the major source of income and of export earnings. Cooperative solutions are still very much on the agenda as part of a 'development' process. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |