03300nam 2200661 450 991045328050332120200520144314.00-253-01084-50-253-01093-4(CKB)2550000001139978(EBL)1520728(OCoLC)862373284(SSID)ssj0001040446(PQKBManifestationID)11992702(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001040446(PQKBWorkID)11001744(PQKB)10979077(MiAaPQ)EBC1520728(MdBmJHUP)muse32385(Au-PeEL)EBL1520728(CaPaEBR)ebr10790912(CaONFJC)MIL539492(EXLCZ)99255000000113997820130424h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEconomic and political reform in Africa anthropological perspectives /Peter D. LittleBloomington :Indiana University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (258 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-01079-9 1-306-08241-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : what it means to be "reformed" -- "They think we can manufacture crops" : contract farming and the nontraditional commodity business -- "Everybody is a petty trader" : peri-urban trade in postconflict Maputo, Mozambique -- "We now milk elephants" : the community conservation business in rural Kenya -- "They are beating us over the head with democracy" : multiparty elections in rural Kenya -- "The government is always telling us what to think" : narratives of food aid dependence in rural Ethiopia -- "Counting the poor" : the politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in Kenya -- "A sort of free business" : hyper-liberalization and Somali transnationalism -- Conclusions : rethinking encounters and reformist narratives.What are the local effects of major economic and political reforms in Africa? How have globalized pro-market and pro-democracy reforms impacted local economics and communities? Examining case studies from The Gambia, Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, Peter D. Little shows how rural farmers and others respond to complex agendas of governments, development agencies, and non-governmental organizations. The book explores the contradictions between what policy reforms were supposed to do and what actually happened in local communities. Little's bold vision of development challengeAgriculture and stateAfricaEconomic developmentAfricaRural developmentAfricaSustainable developmentAfricaAfricaEconomic policyElectronic books.Agriculture and stateEconomic developmentRural developmentSustainable development307.1412096Little Peter D573684MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453280503321Economic and political reform in Africa2108252UNINA