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OverviewThis book uses a unique and extensive data survey of manufacturing firms in Zimbabwe to analyse firm-level responses to economic liberalization. The focus on labour and financial markets, investment behaviour, the determinants of entrepreneurship, productivity growth and efficiency, export performance, firm growth, and resource shifts between different manufacturing activities. Understanding these determinants is crucial evaluating the success or failure of structural adjustment. Full Product DetailsAuthor: J. Gunning , R. OostendorpPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.535kg ISBN: 9780333971277ISBN 10: 0333971272 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 17 December 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors PART I: ZIMBABWE MANUFACTURING, STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND THE RPED ZIMBABWE SURVEY Introduction; J.W.Gunning & R.Oostendorp The RPED Zimbabwe Survey 1993-95; J.Bade, J.W.Gunning & R.Oostendorp PART II; PRODUCT, LABOUR, AND FINANCIAL MARKETS Firm Product Market Characteristics; R.Oostendorp Wage Determination, Human Capital and Labour Market Efficiency; A.D.Velenchik Financial Market Characteristics; M.Fafchamps PART III: FIRM PERFORMANCE AND SECTORAL RESOURCE SHIFTS Investment; M.Fafchamps & R.Oostendorp Determinants of Self-Employment; H.Hoogeveen Productivity Growth and Technical Efficiency in Zimbabwean Manufacturing; K.Mlambo Manufacturing Export Performance, Macro-economic Adjustment and the Role of Networks; H.Hoogeveen & T.Mumvuma Firm Growth; P.Risseeuw Transforming the Economy: Resource Shifts and Expectations; J.W.Gunning Conclusion; J.W.Gunning & R.Oostendorp References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJAN WILLEM GUNNING is Professor of Development Economics at the Free University Amsterdam and Director of the Amsterdam Institute for International Development. He is a former Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. REMCO H. OOSTENDORP is affiliated as Researcher with the Economic and Social Institute of the Free University, Amsterdam. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |