Wage Policy and the Colonial Legacy–a Comparative Study

In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Volume 9, Issue 3, p. 361-387

Abstract

Countries live in the shadow of their past: responses to current circumstances are conditioned by what has gone before. In developing countries plans for economic growth are conditioned by previous policy – or the lack of it – and by what was done or what was not done in previous decades. In Africa south of the Sahara, with the exception of Liberia and Ethiopia, it is the past history of colonial domination which conditions the present.