The Comparative Political Economy of Development
Africa and South Asia
This book illustrates the enduring relevance and vitality of the comparative political economy of development approach promoted among others by a group of social scientists in Oxford in the 1980s and 1990s. Contributors demonstrate the viability of this approach as researchers and academics become more convinced of the inadequacies of orthodox approaches to the understanding of development.Detailed case material obtained from comparative field research in Africa and South Asia informs analyses of exploitation in agriculture; the dynamics of rural poverty; seasonality; the non farm economy; class formation; labour and unfreedom; the gendering…
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Weitere Autoren: Heyer, Judith (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-135-17194-0
- EAN: 9781135171940
- Produktnummer: 19563731
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 7'120 KB
- Abbildungen: 37 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 37 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 27 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Barbara Harriss-White is director of Oxford University's new Contemporary South Asian Studies programme, and was formerly Director of the Department of International Development at Queen Elizabeth House. She has been studying India ever since driving there in 1969, focussing on the political economy of long term rural development.Judith Heyer was formerly a Tutorial Fellow of Somerville College, and Lecturer in the Department of Economics, at Oxford University, before which she held posts at Nairobi University's Institute for Development Studies, and Economics Department. She is now a Fellow Emeritus of Somerville College, Oxford. A specialist in rural development and in micro-economics, she has written and edited a number of books on rural and agricultural development in Kenya and Africa.
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