Table of Contents

Looking back - into the future; mutation of statehood and contemporary politics in Ethiopia; from progressive to reactionary; Eritrea - evolution towards independence and beyond; an important root of the Ethiopian revolution - the student movement; reflections on Ethiopian underdevelopment - problems and prospects; new economic policies and rural development options in the 1990s; designing structural adjustment options for Ethiopia - reconstruction, rehabilitation and long-term transformation; small urban centres and their role in rural restructuring; environmental degradation, population movement and war in Ethiopia; neither fast nor famine - prospects for food security in Ethiopia; local democracy and central control; ethnic factors in post-Megistu Ethiopia; the unquiet countryside - the collapse of socialism and rural agitations in Ethiopia, 1990 and 1991; the end of crises? or crises without end?.

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This volume contains contributions by Ethiopian and European scholars from several disciplines who review the historical issues, economic policy, environmental questions and politics of Ethiopia. They try to draw lessons from the past and suggest solutions to help the peasants and the poor.

About the Author

Abebe Zegeye is Director of the Centre for Modern African Studies at the University of Warwick and Siegfried Pausewang is in the Department of Social Science and Development at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Fantoft, Norway.