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Economic and political reform in Africa : anthropological perspectives / Peter D. Little.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Little, Peter D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture and state--Africa.
- Agriculture and state.
- Economic development--Africa.
- Economic development.
- Rural development--Africa.
- Rural development.
- Sustainable development--Africa.
- Sustainable development.
- Africa--Economic policy.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 challenge
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9780253010841
- 0253010845
- 9780253010933
- 0253010934
- OCLC:
- 862373284
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