Prosperity in Rural Africa?
Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 September 2021
- ISBN 9780198865872
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages462 pages
- Size 240x165x35 mm
- Weight 910 g
- Language English 121
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Short description:
Prosperity in Rural Africa? 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.
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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 first visited and then describe, and try to explain, the changes that you see. The result is a fascinating compilation of insights and experience into the dynamics of rural societies in Tanzania, which highlights the importance of investment in assets for rural peoples and their success in doing so, largely through their endeavours in small-holder farming. Assets are centrally important to local definitions of wealth across the country. This matters a great deal because rural people's investment in assets is not counted when poverty lines are calculated. There are sound methodological reasons for this omission. But it means that when rural people invest in assets, then that growing prosperity is invisible in development data. This book shows what those data can miss.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Overall, here is a conceptually, theoretically, and empirically rich combination of materials for the student of rural development ... This is a must-read for all who want to understand rural social change in Africa.
Table of Contents:
Understanding Long Term Change in Rural Tanzania
Part 1: The Role of Assets in Understanding Social Change in Rural Tanzania: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections
Assets, Prosperity and Data in Rural Africa
The Multiple Meanings of Prosperity and Poverty in Tanzania
Assets and Domestic Units: Methodological Challenges for Longitudinal Studies of Poverty Dynamics.
Part 2: Case Studies of Change
Tracing the Relationships between Assets and Well-being in Complex Social Environments
Modern Farming and the Transformation of Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania
Women's Tears or Coffee Blight: A Gender Dynamics and Livelihood Strategies in Contexts of Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania
The Sesame Seed Cash Injection: Commodity-fuelled Asset Booms in Remote Rural Tanzania
Self-made Farmers and Sustainable Changea Entrepreneurs and Development in Goima and Mirambu
Prosperity, Equality, and Power: Perspectives from Gitting and Gocho, Manyara Region
Ricing Fortunes: Agricultural Growth, Farm Intensification, and Paddy Specialization in Two Tanzanian Villages
Involution and Enterprise in Rural Areas. A Twenty-Year Perspective on Rural and Agricultural Change in Morogoro
Rural and Agrarian Transformation 1984-2018 in Three Marginal Villages in Njombe Region, Tanzania
Exploring Long Term Changes in People's Welfare on the Uporoto Highlands, Mbeya District, Tanzania
Improved Livelihoods on Less Land: The Case of Ilambilole and Ikuwala Villages in Iringa Region, 1996-2017
The Urbanising Frontier, Change, and Continuity: Uchira 1996-2018.
Part 3: Conclusions
Telling the Stories of Asset Accumulation
Epilogue: Doing Longitudinal Research
Biographies of Principal Authors
