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Poverty and Wealth in East Africa

Author : Rhiannon Stephens
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478024518
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Wealth in East Africa written by Rhiannon Stephens and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that even in contexts of relative material equality between households, people invested intellectual energy in creating new ways to talk about the poor and the rich. Stephens uses an interdisciplinary approach to write this history for societies without written records before the nineteenth century. She reconstructs the words people spoke in different eras using the methods of comparative historical linguistics, overlaid with evidence from archaeology, climate science, oral traditions, and ethnography. Demonstrating the dynamism of people’s thinking about poverty and wealth in East Africa long before colonial conquest, Stephens challenges much of the received wisdom about the nature and existence of economic and social inequality in the region’s deeper past.

The Poor are Not Us

Author : David Anderson
Publisher : Ohio University Center for International Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Poor are Not Us written by David Anderson and published by Ohio University Center for International Studies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection concerning East African pastoralists rejects the premise of pastoral egalatarianism and poses questions about the gradual creep of poverty, changing patterns of wealth and accumulation, the impact of diminishing resources on pastoral communities, and the impact of external values.

The Wealth and Poverty of African States

Author : Morten Jerven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108424597
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa

Author : Almas Heshmati
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319309811
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa written by Almas Heshmati and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Using a multidimensional approach, the authors hope to provide a broad view of poverty and a thorough account of the variables that contribute to it. As opposed to traditional studies of poverty, which focus mainly on material well-being, this volume includes criteria such as material standard of living, health, education, housing, personal security, access to information, freedom, participation in organization, corruption, trust, and employment. The studies highlighted in this volume are grouped into the following four research areas: child poverty and malnutrition, dynamics and determinants of poverty, multidimensional measures of poverty, and energy-environment-poverty relationships. Together, these studies provide a comprehensive picture of the state of multidimensional poverty, its measurement, causal factors, and policies and practices in Burundi, Cameron, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda and Tanzania. The methodology utilized in the studies is diverse as well, ranging from econometric analysis to decision theory, to neoclassical growth models. This book is geared towards students and researchers interested in economic development, welfare, and poverty in Africa as well as policy makers and members of NGOs and international aid agencies.

Prosperity in Rural Africa?

Author : Dan Brockington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198865872
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Prosperity in Rural Africa? written by Dan Brockington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does it mean to say that rural areas of Africa are poor? Many people insist that in rural African countries areas poverty is prevalent. This is either because the smallholder agricultural practices are unproductive or it is because economic policies have not protected and promoted African farming. But whether this deprivation is the fault of the peasant, or the government, both sides agree on the facts of rural poverty. However in both cases rural poverty is described using measures which make it hard, if not impossible, to capture new forms of wealth that rural people may be accruing. These new forms of wealth, which largely comprise productive assets, are especially important because they feature so prominently in rural people's own definitions of wealth. Using an unprecedented collection of longitudinal surveys, in which experienced researchers have revisited villages which they have known for decades, we track surprising increases in assets in diverse locations in Tanzania. These findings the result is a compilation which is fascinating in itself and important far understanding of rural economies development data and agricultural policy"--

Poverty in a Rising Africa

Author : Kathleen Beegle
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464807248
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Poverty in a Rising Africa written by Kathleen Beegle and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on “Africa rising†? and an “African 21st century.†? Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa should have brought substantial improvements in well-being. Whether or not they did, remains unclear given the poor quality of the data, the nature of the growth process (especially the role of natural resources), conflicts that affect part of the region, and high population growth. Poverty in a Rising Africa documents the data challenges and systematically reviews the evidence on poverty from monetary and nonmonetary perspectives, as well as a focus on dimensions of inequality. Chapter 1 maps out the availability and quality of the data needed to track monetary poverty, reflects on the governance and political processes that underpin the current situation with respect to data production, and describes some approaches to addressing the data gaps. Chapter 2 evaluates the robustness of the estimates of poverty in Africa. It concludes that poverty reduction in Africa may be slightly greater than traditional estimates suggest, although even the most optimistic estimates of poverty reduction imply that more people lived in poverty in 2012 than in 1990. A broad-stroke profile of poverty and trends in poverty in the region is presented. Chapter 3 broadens the view of poverty by considering nonmonetary dimensions of well-being, such as education, health, and freedom, using Sen's (1985) capabilities and functioning approach. While progress has been made in a number of these areas, levels remain stubbornly low. Chapter 4 reviews the evidence on inequality in Africa. It looks not only at patterns of monetary inequality in Africa but also other dimensions, including inequality of opportunity, intergenerational mobility in occupation and education, and extreme wealth in Africa.

Wealth Creation for Poverty Eradication in Africa

Author : M. J. Balogun
Publisher : Icipe Science Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wealth Creation for Poverty Eradication in Africa written by M. J. Balogun and published by Icipe Science Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wealth and Poverty of African States

Author : Morten Jerven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108586910
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Wealth and Poverty of African States written by Morten Jerven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealth of new data have been unearthed in recent years on African economic growth, wages, living standards, and taxes. In The Wealth and Poverty of African States, Morten Jerven shows how these findings transform our understanding of African economic development. He focuses on the central themes and questions that these state records can answer, tracing how African states evolved over time and the historical footprint they have left behind. By connecting the history of the colonial and postcolonial periods, he reveals an aggregate pattern of long-run growth from the late nineteenth century into the 1970s, giving way to widespread failure and decline in the 1980s, and then followed by two decades of expansion since the late 1990s. The result is a new framework for understanding the causes of poverty and wealth and the trajectories of economic growth and state development in Africa across the twentieth century.

The Effect of Household Wealth on Educational Attainment

Author : Deon Filmer
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Effect of Household Wealth on Educational Attainment written by Deon Filmer and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 1998 While household wealth is strongly related to educational attainment of children nearly everywhere, the magnitude and pattern of the effect of wealth differs widely. The gap in attainment of children of the poor and rich ranges from only one or two years in some countries to nine or ten years in others. This attainment gap is the result of different patterns of enrollment and dropout: while in South America low attainment among the poor is almost entirely due to children who enroll then drop out early, in West Africa and South Asia many poor children never enroll. Using household survey data from 44 Demographic and Health Surveys in 35 countries, Filmer and Pritchett document different patterns in the enrollment and attainment of children from rich and poor households. They find that: * Enrollment profiles of the poor differ across countries but fall into distinctive regional patterns. In some areas (including much of South America) the poor reach nearly universal enrollment in first grade but then drop out in droves. In others (including much of South Asia and West Africa), the poor never enroll. Both patterns lead to low attainment. * There are enormous differences across countries in the wealth gap-the difference in enrollment and educational attainment between the rich and the poor. In some countries the difference between the rich and poor in the median number of years of school completed is only a year or two; in others the gap is as great as nine or ten years. * The attainment profiles can be used as diagnostic tools to examine issues in the educational system, including the extent to which enrollment is low because of the physical unavailability of schools. Filmer and Pritchett overcome the lack of data on income and consumption expenditures in the surveys by constructing a proxy for long-run household wealth, using survey information on assets and using the statistical technique of principal components. This paper-a product of Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to inform education policy. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Educational Enrollment and Dropout (RPO 682-11). Deon Filmer may be contacted at [email protected].

Poverty, Wealth of Mankind

Author : Albert Tévoédjrè
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Poverty, Wealth of Mankind written by Albert Tévoédjrè and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1979 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prosperity in Rural Africa?

Author : Dan Brockington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191898174
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Prosperity in Rural Africa? written by Dan Brockington and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title addresses questions related to tracking economic development in poor rural areas in the face of scarce data. The chapters collect insights and experience into the dynamics of rural societies in Tanzania, demonstrating that economic data can render development in these regions invisible.

Poverty in a Rising Africa

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Poverty in a Rising Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creating Prosperity in Africa

Author : Eugene Nyambal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592991846
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Creating Prosperity in Africa written by Eugene Nyambal and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promote a new social contract based on the ability of leadership to improve the general welfare of society Provide more legitimacy to the creation of wealth and facilitate, beyond sports and music, the rise of new role models whose leadership and contribution to the advancement of society can become an inspiring force for the youth Reform the education system, so as to eradicate illiteracy and spread know-how and values necessary for a successful market economy Reinforce the strategic capabilities of the state, strengthen institutions underpinning the well functioning market economy, and decentralize power Foster regional integration to create larger markets for the development of industries and investment Promote longer-term population growth policies by among others, forcefully fighting pandemics such as HIV-AIDS and malaria, as well as malnutrition Set an ambitious development vision and benchmark competition in the implementation of reforms in areas such as business environment, infrastructure, labor productivity, and set up Free Processing Zones to gain access to international markets Create an enabling environment to attract mature technologies in Africa and encourage domestic use of technology Shift IMF and World Bank policies toward promoting growth and employment and encourage the most promising African countries to exit from IMF lending Stop providing sustained financial assistance to governments with an established track record of corruption and to regimes that have failed over an extended period of time to improve the standard of living of their populations.

A History of African Motherhood

Author : Rhiannon Stephens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107244994
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book A History of African Motherhood written by Rhiannon Stephens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of African motherhood over the longue durée demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural and political life. The book explores how people in the North Nyanzan societies of Uganda used an ideology of motherhood to shape their communities. More than biology, motherhood created essential social and political connections that cut across patrilineal and cultural-linguistic divides. The importance of motherhood as an ideology and a social institution meant that in chiefdoms and kingdoms queen mothers were powerful officials who legitimated the power of kings. This was the case in Buganda, the many kingdoms of Busoga, and the polities of Bugwere. By taking a long-term perspective from c.700 to 1900 CE and using an interdisciplinary approach - drawing on historical linguistics, comparative ethnography, and oral traditions and literature, as well as archival sources - this book shows the durability, mutability and complexity of ideologies of motherhood in this region.

Poverty and Wealth in Cities and Villages

Author : Martin Simons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Wealth in Cities and Villages written by Martin Simons and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Doing Conceptual History in Africa

Author : Axel Fleisch
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339524
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Doing Conceptual History in Africa written by Axel Fleisch and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing an innovative methodological toolkit, Doing Conceptual History in Africa provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies. The studies assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development, with a particular emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. From precolonial dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of nationalist movements, each contribution strikes a balance between the local and the global, engaging with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work,” “marriage,” and “land” take shape.

Why Africa is Poor

Author : Greg Mills
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 014352903X
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Why Africa is Poor written by Greg Mills and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic growth does not demand a secret formula. Good development examples now abound in East Asia and further afield in others parts of Asia, and in Central America. But why then has Africa failed to realise its potential in half a century of independence? Why Africa is Poor demonstrates that Africa is poor not because the world has denied the continent the market and financial means to compete: far from it. It has not been because of aid per se. Nor is African poverty solely a consequence of poor infrastructure or trade access, or because the necessary development and technical expertise is unavailable internationally. Why then has the continent lagged behind other developing areas when its people work hard and the continent is blessed with abundant natural resources? Stomping across the continent and the developing world in search of the answer, Greg Mills controversially shows that the main reason why Africa's people are poor is because their leaders have made this choice.