The Politics of Poverty: Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania: 143 (African Studies, Series Number 143)

Becker, Felicitas

ISBN 10: 1108496938 / ISBN 13: 9781108496933

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2019

VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents. Codice articolo 9999-99996726656

Riassunto:

An examination of poverty dynamics and developmental failure, shifting emphasis from development as control to development as coping strategy.

Informazioni sull?autore: Felicitas Becker is Professor of African history at Ghent University, and has previously taught at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and the University of Cambridge. Her Ph.D. thesis from the University of Cambridge won the Ellen MacArthur Prize in economic history, and her first book, Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890–2000 (2008), obtained a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship publication award. She is currently working on the interaction between notions of progress used in development discourse and those deployed by religious reformers in East Africa.

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Titolo: The Politics of Poverty: Policy-Making and ...
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2019
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good