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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: African dynamics ; 7.Publication details: Leiden : Brill, 2008.Description: x, 306 s. : illISBN:
  • 9004158405
  • 9789004158405
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC800 .Z9 P63 .Z9 P63
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.
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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.

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