Marc Wuyts
Biographic Data
| ID | 80307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Wuyts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Wuyts |
| SIGNATURE | WUYTS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Planning for Agricultural Change and Economic Transformation in Tanzania
Recently, Tanzania witnessed a revival of economic planning that explicitly aimed to combine rapid economic growth with accelerated structural transformation of the economy. To achieve these planning targets would require a relatively modest drop in the share of agriculture in GDP, but a dramatic fall in its share in employment by 2025. Tanzanian planners assume that labour is locked in agriculture because agricultural productivity is low, from w…
The Invisibility of Wage Employment in Statistics on the Informal Economy in Africa
This article challenges the claim, along with the statistics that support it, that self-employment is by far the dominant employment status in the informal economy. The article begins by reviewing key insights from relevant literature on the informal economy to argue that conventional notions of ‘wage employment’ and ‘self-employment’, while unfit for capturing the nature and variety of employment relations in developing countries, remain central…
Local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa and access to essential medicines
BACKGROUND: International policy towards access to essential medicines in Africa has focused until recently on international procurement of large volumes of medicines, mainly from Indian manufacturers, and their import and distribution. This emphasis is now being challenged by renewed policy interest in the potential benefits of local pharmaceutical production and supply. However, there is a shortage of evidence on the role of locally produced me…
Ruth First and the Mozambican miner
Note on contributorMarc Wuyts is (Emeritus) Professor in Quantitative Applied Economics of the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He worked at the Economics Department of the University of Dar es Salaam from 1972 to 1976, and at the Faculty of Economics and the Centre of African Studies of Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. His academic interests concern the macroeconomics of accumulation, growth and econ…
Growth, Employment and the Productivity-Wage Gap
Issa Shivji
Banking on Rural Innovation for Poverty Reduction
Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty
The Agrarian Question in Mozambique’s Transition and Reconstruction
The economic policies of transition and reconstruction in Mozambique, like the policies of central planning beforehand, were based on an inappropriate model of the inherited rural economy. Under central planning, the peasantry was looked upon as a mass of
Foreign Aid, Structural Adjustment, and Public Management
In looking at the case of Mozambique under structural adjustment, this article argues that the particular combination of fiscal restraints imposed by financial programming, and the proliferation of decentralized project-based management, together proved to be a potent mixture which failed to reconstruct a coherent pattern of state action. The problem lies in the increasing dominance of foreign aid and in the uneasy interplay between programme aid…
Accumulation, Industrialisation and the peasantry
Tanzania's development policy during the 1970s aimed to develop production for the home market through a state-led aid-driven investment strategy in import-substituting industrialisation, but ended up by eroding its most critical component - the exchange with the peasantry. This article argues that the failure of this investment strategy can only be understood by looking at the mechanisms through which investment shaped domestic demand patterns i…
Accumulation, social services and socialist transition in the third world
The purpose of this article is to argue for the viability, and the logic, of a distinctive approach to planning economic development and socialist transition in poor economies. The components of this distinctive approach are: more decentralised, and popularly‐based, planning and control of accumulation; the close interlinking of investment in social services and in rural production; and an emphasis on intervention in the market as a tool of socia…
The Food Balance and Economic Growth
Money, planning and rural transformation in Mozambique
This article argues that the transformation of the rural economy should proceed on a broad front which links the development of the state sector with the need to transform family agriculture through co‐operatisation. In actual fact, planning became concentrated on the state sector which received the bulk of the investible resources. Disequilibria between the planned needs of resources and their real availability destabilised the exchange between …
The Mechanization of Present-Day Mozambican Agriculture
Money and planning for socialist transition
This study develops an argument about the role of money in the process of planning for socialist transformation in the concrete case of the Mozambican experience in the period 1975-1983. The context was an economy were the peasantry through its production of cash crops as well as through its supply of labour power constituted the cornerstone of the social organization of production. Hence, the nationalisations of the major means of production cre…
Money and planning for socialist transition
This study develops an argument about the role of money in the process of planning for socialist transformation in the concrete case of the Mozambican experience in the period 1975-1983. The context was an economy were the peasantry through its production of cash crops as well as through its supply of labour power constituted the cornerstone of the social organization of production. Hence, the nationalisations of the major means of production cre…
Foreign Aid, Structural Adjustment, and Public Management
In looking at the case of Mozambique under structural adjustment, this article argues that the particular combination of fiscal restraints imposed by financial programming, and the proliferation of decentralized project-based management, together proved to be a potent mixture which failed to reconstruct a coherent pattern of state action. The problem lies in the increasing dominance of foreign aid and in the uneasy interplay between programme aid…
Ruth First and the Mozambican miner
Note on contributorMarc Wuyts is (Emeritus) Professor in Quantitative Applied Economics of the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He worked at the Economics Department of the University of Dar es Salaam from 1972 to 1976, and at the Faculty of Economics and the Centre of African Studies of Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. His academic interests concern the macroeconomics of accumulation, growth and econ…
Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty
Accumulation, Industrialisation and the peasantry
Tanzania's development policy during the 1970s aimed to develop production for the home market through a state-led aid-driven investment strategy in import-substituting industrialisation, but ended up by eroding its most critical component - the exchange with the peasantry. This article argues that the failure of this investment strategy can only be understood by looking at the mechanisms through which investment shaped domestic demand patterns i…
The Mechanization of Present-Day Mozambican Agriculture
Planning for Agricultural Change and Economic Transformation in Tanzania
Recently, Tanzania witnessed a revival of economic planning that explicitly aimed to combine rapid economic growth with accelerated structural transformation of the economy. To achieve these planning targets would require a relatively modest drop in the share of agriculture in GDP, but a dramatic fall in its share in employment by 2025. Tanzanian planners assume that labour is locked in agriculture because agricultural productivity is low, from w…
Growth, Employment and the Productivity-Wage Gap
The Food Balance and Economic Growth
Issa Shivji
The Mechanization of Present-Day Mozambican Agriculture
Money, planning and rural transformation in Mozambique
This article argues that the transformation of the rural economy should proceed on a broad front which links the development of the state sector with the need to transform family agriculture through co‐operatisation. In actual fact, planning became concentrated on the state sector which received the bulk of the investible resources. Disequilibria between the planned needs of resources and their real availability destabilised the exchange between …
Accumulation, social services and socialist transition in the third world
The purpose of this article is to argue for the viability, and the logic, of a distinctive approach to planning economic development and socialist transition in poor economies. The components of this distinctive approach are: more decentralised, and popularly‐based, planning and control of accumulation; the close interlinking of investment in social services and in rural production; and an emphasis on intervention in the market as a tool of socia…
The Food Balance and Economic Growth
Accumulation, Industrialisation and the peasantry
Tanzania's development policy during the 1970s aimed to develop production for the home market through a state-led aid-driven investment strategy in import-substituting industrialisation, but ended up by eroding its most critical component - the exchange with the peasantry. This article argues that the failure of this investment strategy can only be understood by looking at the mechanisms through which investment shaped domestic demand patterns i…
Foreign Aid, Structural Adjustment, and Public Management
In looking at the case of Mozambique under structural adjustment, this article argues that the particular combination of fiscal restraints imposed by financial programming, and the proliferation of decentralized project-based management, together proved to be a potent mixture which failed to reconstruct a coherent pattern of state action. The problem lies in the increasing dominance of foreign aid and in the uneasy interplay between programme aid…
The Agrarian Question in Mozambique’s Transition and Reconstruction
The economic policies of transition and reconstruction in Mozambique, like the policies of central planning beforehand, were based on an inappropriate model of the inherited rural economy. Under central planning, the peasantry was looked upon as a mass of
Banking on Rural Innovation for Poverty Reduction
Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty
Issa Shivji
Growth, Employment and the Productivity-Wage Gap
Local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa and access to essential medicines
BACKGROUND: International policy towards access to essential medicines in Africa has focused until recently on international procurement of large volumes of medicines, mainly from Indian manufacturers, and their import and distribution. This emphasis is now being challenged by renewed policy interest in the potential benefits of local pharmaceutical production and supply. However, there is a shortage of evidence on the role of locally produced me…
Ruth First and the Mozambican miner
Note on contributorMarc Wuyts is (Emeritus) Professor in Quantitative Applied Economics of the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He worked at the Economics Department of the University of Dar es Salaam from 1972 to 1976, and at the Faculty of Economics and the Centre of African Studies of Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. His academic interests concern the macroeconomics of accumulation, growth and econ…
The Invisibility of Wage Employment in Statistics on the Informal Economy in Africa
This article challenges the claim, along with the statistics that support it, that self-employment is by far the dominant employment status in the informal economy. The article begins by reviewing key insights from relevant literature on the informal economy to argue that conventional notions of ‘wage employment’ and ‘self-employment’, while unfit for capturing the nature and variety of employment relations in developing countries, remain central…
Planning for Agricultural Change and Economic Transformation in Tanzania
Recently, Tanzania witnessed a revival of economic planning that explicitly aimed to combine rapid economic growth with accelerated structural transformation of the economy. To achieve these planning targets would require a relatively modest drop in the share of agriculture in GDP, but a dramatic fall in its share in employment by 2025. Tanzanian planners assume that labour is locked in agriculture because agricultural productivity is low, from w…
Money and planning for socialist transition
This study develops an argument about the role of money in the process of planning for socialist transformation in the concrete case of the Mozambican experience in the period 1975-1983. The context was an economy were the peasantry through its production of cash crops as well as through its supply of labour power constituted the cornerstone of the social organization of production. Hence, the nationalisations of the major means of production cre…
Economics (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Economic system (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Market economy (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Tanzania (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works)