> Part of the secret, of course, was that policies of #AgriculturalDeregulation and financial discipline enforced by the IMF and #WorldBank continued to generate an exodus of surplus rural labor to #UrbanSlums even as cities ceased to be job machines. As #DeborahBryceson, a leading #EuropeanAfricanist, emphasizes in her summary of recent #AgrarianResearch, the 1980s and 1990s were a generation of unprecedented upheaval in the global countryside:
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