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TagsAfrican Journeys: 4: Brave New WorldSeries 1, episode 4By the 1980s, Africa's economies were in such a ruinous state that the World Bank and IMF insisted on 'structural adjustment'. State industries were privatised and civil servants sacked. The result was a huge rise in the number of people making a living in the 'informal economy', often holding several subsistence-level jobs at once. In Kenya it's known as 'jua kali' - literally 'working in the hot sun'. Aidan Hartley travels to the Kenya/Uganda border to explore the jua kali world. Click to see when African Journeys, 4: Brave New World is coming up on UK TV |
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