The policy relationship between individual rights to land and migrant labor systems in Africa

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Title:	The policy relationship between individual rights to land and migrant labor systems in Africa
Author:	Macloughlin, P.F.M.
Year:	1964
Periodical:	Civilisations
Volume:	14
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	12-16
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	labour migration customary law land law
Abstract:	The migrant labor system, and the question of land tenure are two of the most important economic subjects needing treatment before economic development achieves any significant momentum. The object of this brief note is to call to the attention of policy-makers in African nations the inter-relationship between these two crucial economic areas, as to date: the policy network which surrounds each appears to have lived a more or less separate life. But they should not be treated as mutually separate and exclusive issues. They should, rather, be considered as interrelated parts of a wider policy objective of stabilizing the entire labor force so as to raise both industrial and agricultural output. Imbalance is automatic if you ban people from the land more quickly than they can be absorbed in industry; or if you make industry so attractive that the more progressive and eager leave the land in such a volume that the rise in agriculture output does not keep pace with the growth of the rest of the economy or of population, Agricultural development policy and industrial development policy must be integrated. French summary p. 17-18.