Inside poverty and development in Africa : critical reflections on pro-poor policies /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rutten, M. M. E. M., 1957-, Leliveld, Andre, Foeken, D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Colección:African dynamics ; 7.
Temas:
Since 1960
Economic assistance, Domestic > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Poverty > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Rural development > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Aide au développement économique régional > Afrique subsaharienne.
Pauvreté > Afrique subsaharienne.
Développement rural > Afrique subsaharienne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General.
Economic assistance, Domestic
Economic history
Poverty
Rural development
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Armut
Entwicklungspolitik
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Economic conditions > 1960-
Afrique subsaharienne > Conditions économiques > 1960-
Sub-Saharan Africa
Afrika
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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