Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa written by Robert H. Bates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-04-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume represent a dialogue between theory and data. The theory is drawn from a branch of contemporary political economy which can also be labeled the collective-choice school. The data are drawn from Africa. The book extends the methods of reasoning developed in collective choice from their original base-the advanced industrial democracies-to new territory; the literature on rural Africa. Such as extension challenges the power of this form of political economy. It also enriches it, for the central questions which motivate the contemporary study of political economy are often addressed with unique clarity in the scholarship on rural Africa.

Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Africa written by Giovanni Arrighi and published by New York : Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Africa written by Giovanni Arrighi and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government and Rural Development in East Africa written by L. Cliffe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gestation period of this collection has been lengthy even by academic stan dards. Some of our long-suffering contributors prepared their original drafts for a workshop held in Nairobi in 1967, and although they have all up-dated their contributions they are still essentially reporting on research conducted in the late 1960s. However, we feel that their various findings and analyses of the issues they respectively treat have a continuing validity in our comprehension of the problem of rural development. Other contributions reporting on more recent work have been incorporated at different times since, most of them not commissioned especially for this symposium but all adding something to our understanding of the problem. The slow accumulation of material which makes up this fmal collection parallels an evolution in our own collective thinking, if indeed not that of most students of 'development' over the past decade. The progression has not been towards fmal clarification of the complex and changing East African realities, nor towards formulation of an accepted model for their analysis; rather, it has been marked by the questioning of the initial, somewhat simplistic assumptions with which some of us started out and a continuing debate and widening polar ization of views about the significance of that process of government 'pene tration' of the rural areas which is our focus, about the positive or negative value of 'development' policies in East Africa and, indeed, about the appropri ate theoretical approaches to the study of 'development' in general.

Download or read book Essays in the Public Philosophy of Development Studies in the political economy of Africa written by Pius Nwabufo C. Okigbo and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Political Economy of Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Comparative Political Economy of Development written by Barbara Harriss-White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of the labour force; small scale production and contract farming; social networks in industrial clusters; stigma and discrimination in the rural and urban economy and its politics. Reasoned policy suggestions are made and an analysis of the comparative political economy of development approach is applied to the situation of Africa and South Asia. Aptly presenting the relation between theory and empirical material in a dynamic and interactive way, the book offers meaningful and powerful explanations of what is happening in the continent of Africa and the sub-continent of South Asia today. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of development studies, rural sociology, political economy, policy and practice of development and Indian and African studies.

Download or read book Selected Essays on Political Economy written by Frédéric Bastiat and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Political Economy of Africa written by Richard Legé Harris and published by Schenkman Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph of papers on political leadership, political power and economic developments in Africa south of Sahara - examines the causes of underdevelopment and includes a comparison of development policy in Tanzania and Kenya, and a chapter on racial segregation, industrialization and poverty of non-whites in South Africa R. Map and references.

Download or read book Political Economy of Rural Development written by Rosemary E. Galli and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1981-06-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is concerned with integrated social and economic development in the Third World. It directs special attention to the psychological manipulation of peasants in order to keep them on the land and, where possible, make them more productive. In Part One, Henry Bernstein outlines and illustrates concepts for the analysis of contemporary peasantries. His introduction provides a general, historical framework for understanding the relationship of contemporary peasantries to "modernization." It is followed, in Parts Two and Three, by case studies of programs in Colombia (Rosemary E. Galli), Mexico (Hannes Lorenzen and Ernest Feder), Tanzania (Bruno Musti de Gennaro), and Bangladesh (Elizabeth Hartmann and James K. Boyce). In Part Four, Rosemary Galli offers a concluding essay on "Rural Development and the Contradiction of Capitalist Development." In this book, empirical evidence combines with personal experiences to cut through the rhetoric of those who consider "the underdeveloped nation" as an abstract unit. It reveals the variety of contemporary rural development strategies. From their synthesis emerges a picture of the internal political configuration of underdevelopment—the role of international capital and technology in rural areas and in assessment of the impact upon peasant farmers. This book persuasively argues that international agencies, supporting and supported by national governments and elites, promote development policies inimical to the welfare of rural cultivators.

Download or read book Issues in African Political Economies written by Toyin Falola and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in African Political Economies draws together nineteen essays that detail local and regional political economies in Africa by describing case studies squarely situated within the global context. The varied perspectives from a range of academic fields speak to the complex layers and configurations of local, national, and global political and economic systems. These authors identify economic hardships and political uncertainties, providing insightful critiques and solutions based on grounded theory and solid documentation of current conditions. Each scholar reveals astute assessments of these modern political economies and their varied impact and results across a range of issues and contexts. Whether utilizing a case study or discussing specific aspects of the political economy such as government policy; political alliances; labor relations; natural resources; urban versus rural environments; or human factors of age, gender, socio-economic status, and ethnicity; each chapter concludes with policy recommendations and straightforward plans of action. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin.

Download or read book The Political Economy of Contemporary Africa written by Peter Claus Wolfgang Gutkind and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1985-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on trends regarding the economic policy, economic implications and social implications of capitalism in Africa South of Sahara - covers historical and sociological aspects; includes chapters on dependence, the role of the peasantry and traditional society in rural development, proletarianization and the evolution of social classes, socio-economic role of foreign investment, White political power structures in Southern Africa, etc. Bibliography, references, statistical tables.

Download or read book The Political Economy of Contemporary Africa written by Peter Claus Wolfgang Gutkind and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976-09-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Political Economy of Africa written by Dennis Cohen and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph comprising a compilation of essays on the economic policy of Africa - examines historical development of dependence within the international capitalist system (role of developed countries and of multinational enterprises), discusses social stratification, cultural factors, social role of women, etc., and includes ideologycal statements representative of African development policies (incl. Agricultural policies). Bibliographys.

Download or read book A Political Economy of Africa written by Claude Ake and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph comprising a compilation of essays on the economic policy of Africa - examines historical development of dependence within the international capitalist system (role of developed countries and of multinational enterprises), discusses social stratification, cultural factors, social role of women, etc., and includes ideologycal statements representative of African development policies (incl. Agricultural policies). Bibliographys.

Download or read book Class Struggles and National Liberation in Africa written by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Markets and States in Tropical Africa written by Robert H. Bates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-04-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa’s “growth tragedy,” Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and scholars alike. Robert H. Bates’s analysis now faces a challenge, however: the revival of economic growth on the continent. In this edition, Bates provides a new preface and chapter that address the seeds of Africa’s recovery and discuss the significance of the continent’s success for the arguments of this classic work.