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"Basics are now a luxury": perceptions of structural adjustment's impact on rural and urban areas in Zimbabwe

Geography Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, dp6{at}soas.ac.uk.

Chris Mutambirwa

Dept of Geography, University of Zimbabwe, PO Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe.

This paper describes differences in the impact of the Economic Structural Adjustment Policy (ESAP) on Zimbabwe's rural and urban areas through the views of recent migrants to Harare. Although the outcomes of ESAP have been more acutely felt in the city than in the countryside, rural populations have also suffered from increases in the prices of basic commodities and in public services fees. Retrenchment and increasing poverty in the city affect rural households, as remittances decline and migrants return to their rural homes, increasing the burden there. Due to the strength of rural-urban interactions and the economic interdependence between city and countryside, the impact of structural adjustment is not clearly geographically defined.

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