This book explored the impacts of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Banks funded economic reform programme (ERP) on local level rural institutions in Zimbabwes two rural districts, namely Gwanda and Nyanga. The book focuses on how local level institutions in Zimbabwes rural areas adapted to market oriented reforms introduced in 1991 by the Zimbabwean government. The study demonstrates that the ERP was not, to a larger extent, able to create a conducive environment for the local "modern" institutions (for example, RDCs, WADCOs and VIDCOs) and "traditional" institutions (for...