Format:
1 online resource (385 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415552882
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9780203861332
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Development Economics Series
Content:
This book illustrates the enduring relevance and vitality of the comparative political economy of development approach and aptly presents the relation between theory and empirical material in a dynamic and interactive way. It offers a meaningful and powerful explanation of what is happening in the continent of Africa and the sub-continent of South Asia today
Note:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The political economy of agrarian change: Dinosaur or phoenix? -- 3 Strategic dimensions of rural poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa -- 4 From 'rural labour' to 'classes of labour': Class fragmentation, caste and class struggle at the bottom of the Indian labour hierarchy -- 5 Poverty: Causes, responses and consequences in rural South Africa -- 6 Seasonal food crises and social protection in Africa -- 7 The political economy of contract farming in tea in Kenya: The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), 1964-2002 -- 8 Networking for success: Informal enterprise and popular associations in Nigeria -- 9 Free and unfree labour in the Cape wine industry, 1838-1988 -- 10 The Opium 'Revolution': Continuity or change in rural Afghanistan? -- 11 The marginalisation of Dalits in a modernising economy -- 12 Shifting the 'grindstone of caste'?: Decreasing dependency among Dalit labourers in Tamil Nadu -- 13 Liberalisation and transformations in India's informal economy: Female breadwinners in working-class households in Chennai -- 14 Dalit entrepreneurs in middle India -- 15 Stigma and regions of accumulation: Mapping Dalit and Adivasi capital in the 1990s -- Glossary -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Harriss-White, Barbara The Comparative Political Economy of Development Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2010 ISBN 9780415552882
Language:
English
Keywords:
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