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Title:

Inside poverty and development in Africa : critical reflections on pro-poor policies / edited by Marcel Rutten, André Leliveld, Dick Foeken.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 306 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Economic assistance, Domestic--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Poverty--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic conditions--1960-
Rural development--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Other Authors:

Rutten, M. M. E. M., 1957-
Leliveld, Andre.
Foeken, D.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction : inside poverty and development in Africa / Marcel Rutten & André Leliveld -- Natural resource management and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa / Philip Woodhouse -- Confusing counts, correlates and causes of poverty : a study of the PRSP in Lesotho / Deborah Johnston & John Sender -- Why De Soto's ideas might triumph everywhere but in Kenya : a review of land-tenure policies among Maasai pastoralists / Marcel Rutten -- Political instability, chronic poverty and food production systems in central Chad / Han van Dijk -- Promises of economic development in the Great Limpopo, Southern Africa : networks and partnerships in transfrontier conservation / Marja Spierenburg, Conrad Steenkamp & Harry Wels -- The social security function of land in Mbarara District in Uganda / André Leliveld -- Intra-household differences in coping with illness in rural Ethiopia / Marleen Dekker -- Urban agriculture and the urban poor : does policy matter? / Dick Foeken -- Livelihoods and income diversification among artisanal fishers on the Kenyan coast / Jan Hoorweg, Barasa Wangila & Allan Degen -- The MDG on poverty and hunger : how reliable are the hunger estimates? / Wijnand Klaver & Maarten Nubé.

Series:

African dynamics, 1568-1777 ; v. 7

ISBN:

9789004158405
9004158405

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)