The comparative political economy of development : Africa and South Asia / / edited by Barbara Harriss-White and Judith Heyer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825788003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-135-17193-9; 1-135-17194-7; 1-282-97443-2; 9786612974434; 0-203-86133-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in development economics ; ; v. 77
• Altri autori (Persone): Harriss-WhiteBarbara <1946->; HeyerJudith
• Disciplina: 338.954
• Soggetti: Economics; Africa Economic policy; Africa Social conditions; South Asia Economic policy; South Asia Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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), 1964-20028 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 Chennai14 Dalit entrepreneurs in middle India; 15 Stigma and regions of accumulation: Mapping Dalit and Adivasi capital in the 1990s; Glossary; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ec