Prosperity in Rural Africa?
Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania
How can we track change in poor rural areas where data are scarce? How do we know what general economic growth does to places which are considered rural backwaters? As poorer countries try to transform their economies, and as economies appear to be rebounding across Africa, what is that doing to the rural poor?Prosperity in Rural Africa? provides surprising and challenging answers to these questions. It brings together the expertise of a collection of researchers with decades of experience of working in Tanzania, all of whom faced a deceptively simple task: go back to your study sites, to the places you know well, and to the families you firs…
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Weitere Autoren: Noe, Christine (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-263538-9
- EAN: 9780192635389
- Produktnummer: 37419111
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: PDF
Über den Autor
Dan Brockington directs the Sheffield Institute of International Development at the University of Sheffield. He studied for his thesis at UCL with Kathy Homewood and has worked on aspects of natural resource management and livelihood change in East Africa based on long term fieldwork in remote locations. He has recently published (with Peter Billie Larson) The Anthropology of Conservation NGOs (Palgrave, 2018).Christine Noe is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam. She trained for her PhD at the University of Cape Town where she graduated in 2009. Her research and teaching are mostly on conservation and development politics, land tenure and rights, and rural livelihood changes. She has held fellowships with the Five College Young African Scholars program (University of Massachusetts), All Africa House (University of Cape Town), and the Visiting AfricanFellowship (University of Cambridge). Christine believes that strong collaborations are the foundation on which solid African scholarship can be supported.
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