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Mombasa’s Missing Link: Marginalization or Mismanagement?

In: African Urban Economies

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  • Carole Rakodi

    (University of Birmingham)

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Mombasa, Kenya’s second city, has a long urban history and considerable economic promise, but several sectors are at present characterized by stagnation or decline. Open unemployment has increased, real wages have fallen and over a third of the city’s population is living below the poverty line. This chapter aims to assess possible explanations for this lacklustre economic position. To guide the analysis, alternative explanations of the economic success of cities are briefly reviewed, followed by a schematic outline of Mombasa’s location and pre-independence history. The city’s contemporary structure and its labour market are then examined. Although Mombasa’s economy is diversified, various obstacles lie in the way of economic prosperity, as are detailed below.

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  • Carole Rakodi, 2006. "Mombasa’s Missing Link: Marginalization or Mismanagement?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Deborah Potts (ed.), African Urban Economies, chapter 5, pages 131-150, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52301-2_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523012_5
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