LEADER 04049oam 2200709I 450 001 9910455065103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-17193-9 010 $a1-135-17194-7 010 $a1-282-97443-2 010 $a9786612974434 010 $a0-203-86133-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203861332 035 $a(CKB)1000000000822377 035 $a(EBL)472478 035 $a(OCoLC)570774704 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000336026 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11230208 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336026 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10279139 035 $a(PQKB)11211122 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC472478 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL472478 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10361667 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL297443 035 $a(OCoLC)502649878 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000822377 100 $a20180706d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe comparative political economy of development $eAfrica and South Asia /$fedited by Barbara Harriss-White and Judith Heyer 210 1$aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in development economics ;$vv. 77 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-80995-9 311 $a0-415-55288-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 327 $a7 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 327 $a13 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 330 $aThis book illustrates the enduring relevance and vitality of the comparative political economy of development approach promoted among others by a group of social scientists in Oxford in the 1980s and 1990s. Contributors demonstrate the viability of this approach as researchers and academics become more convinced of the inadequacies of orthodox approaches to the understanding of development.Detailed case material obtained from comparative field research in Africa and South Asia informs analyses of exploitation in agriculture; the dynamics of rural poverty; seasonality; the non farm ec 410 0$aRoutledge studies in development economics ;$vv. 77. 606 $aEconomics 607 $aAfrica$xEconomic policy 607 $aAfrica$xSocial conditions 607 $aSouth Asia$xEconomic policy 607 $aSouth Asia$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomics. 676 $a338.954 701 $aHarriss-White$b Barbara$f1946-$0121043 701 $aHeyer$b Judith$0290876 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455065103321 996 $aThe comparative political economy of development$92130451 997 $aUNINA