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Research Report 117. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. 118 pp.

This book, by two academic social workers at the University of Zimbabwe, is the fourth and final report on a longitudinal study sponsored by the Nordic Africa Institute. The study, part of that institute's program on the context of structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa, focused on women in the informal sector. It started in 1991, and compares the data collected from the fourth round of fieldwork, in October 1998, with that collected in earlier phases of the study, in December 1992, October 1993, and October 1995. Its major potential interest lies in its longitudinal nature, because few if any studies have followed a group of people in the informal sector for this long a time. …