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Who Is Losing Out? Structural Adjustment, Gender, and the Agricultural Sector in Zambia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Gisela Geisler
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In Zambia's first multi-party elections for two decades, the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (M.M.D.) won a landslide victory over Kenneth Kaunda's United Independence Party (U.N.I.P) on 31 October 1991. Many observers believe that the sweeping 80 per cent majority gained by Frederick Chiluba and his M.M.D. in both urban and rural areas was to a large degree due to the increasing economic hardships most Zambians have been subjected to over the last years. The opposition's slogan ‘The Hour Has Come’ captured the mood of many who had lost patience with the gross economic mismanagement and wastefulness that characterised the Government.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 113 - 139
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