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The existence of a rural-urban ‘imbalance’, allegedly all pervasive south of the Sahara, represented a central element in the justification of virtually all structural adjustment programmes in SSA countries.1 The Bank argued this case for Sierra Leone. The existence or non-existence of a rural-urban ‘gap’, in incomes and public services, was key to the structural adjustment diagnosis and policy prescription. It served to justify a shift in income distribution from urban to rural areas on the grounds that it promoted greater equity.
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Weeks, J. (1992). Rural and Urban Incomes. In: Development Strategy and the Economy of Sierra Leone. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11936-3_5
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