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Title:Rural Cooperation and the Renewal of Rural Socialism in Africa
Author:Lawrence, PeterISNI
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]
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