| Description |
1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
African dynamics,
1568-1777 ;
v. 7
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African dynamics ; 7.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction : inside poverty and development in Africa / Marcel Rutten & André Leliveld -- Natural resource management and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa / Philip Woodhouse -- Confusing counts, correlates and causes of poverty : a study of the PRSP in Lesotho / Deborah Johnston & John Sender -- Why De Soto's ideas might triumph everywhere but in Kenya : a review of land-tenure policies among Maasai pastoralists / Marcel Rutten -- Political instability, chronic poverty and food production systems in central Chad / Han van Dijk -- Promises of economic development in the Great Limpopo, Southern Africa : networks and partnerships in transfrontier conservation / Marja Spierenburg, Conrad Steenkamp & Harry Wels -- The social security function of land in Mbarara District in Uganda / André Leliveld -- Intra-household differences in coping with illness in rural Ethiopia / Marleen Dekker -- Urban agriculture and the urban poor : does policy matter? / Dick Foeken -- Livelihoods and income diversification among artisanal fishers on the Kenyan coast / Jan Hoorweg, Barasa Wangila & Allan Degen -- The MDG on poverty and hunger : how reliable are the hunger estimates? / Wijnand Klaver & Maarten Nubé. |
| Summary |
Thinking about development in Africa requires an appreciation of at least two sets of ideas. It is not sufficient to stress the ubiquity of failure, malnutrition, disease, predatory states and war; one also has to recognize that important aspects of the lives of millions of ordinary people have been transformed over the last five decades. The contributions in this book are rooted in extensive empirical research at local, regional and/or national level in different African countries, including Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa and Uganda, while some take a pan-African perspective. Al. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economic assistance, Domestic -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Economic assistance, Domestic. |
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Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Poverty -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Poverty. |
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Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1960- |
| Subject |
Rural development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Rural development. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1960 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rutten, M. M. E. M., 1957-
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Leliveld, Andre.
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Foeken, D.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Inside poverty and development in Africa. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 9004158405 (OCoLC)248439408 |
| ISBN |
9789047442660 (electronic book) |
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9047442660 (electronic book) |
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9004158405 |
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9789004158405 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004158405.i-306 |
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