TY  - BOOK
AU  - Becker, Felicitas
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019//
TI  - politics of poverty: policy-making and development in rural Tanzania
T3  - African studies series
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Ländliche Armut
KW  - Ländliche Entwicklung
KW  - Ernährungssicherung
KW  - Wirtschaftspolitik
KW  - Sozialpolitik
KW  - Tansania
KW  - Rural poor
KW  - Tanzania
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Food supply
KW  - Rural development
KW  - Rural poor ; Tanzania
KW  - Poverty ; Political aspects ; Tanzania
KW  - Food supply ; Political aspects ; Tanzania
KW  - Rural development ; Tanzania
KW  - Tanzania ; Rural conditions
KW  - Tanzania ; Economic policy
KW  - Tanzania ; Social policy
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Social policy
AB  - How is it that rural poverty in southern Tanzania appears both easy to explain and yet also mystifying? Why is it that 'development' is such a touchstone, when actual attempts at fostering development have been largely ephemeral and/or unpopular for decades? In this book, Felicitas Becker traces dynamics of rural poverty based on the exportation of foodstuffs rather than the better-known problems connected to exportation of migrant labour, and examines what has kept the development industry going despite its failure to break these dynamics. Becker argues that development planners often exaggerated their prospects to secure funding, repackaged old strategies as new to maintain their promise, and shifted blame onto rural Africans for failing to meet the expectations they had raised. But the rural poor, too, pursued conversations on the causes and morality of poverty and wealth. Despite their dependence and deprivation, officials found repeatedly that they could not take them for granted.
SN  - 9781108690485
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108690485
DO  - 10.1017/9781108690485
LA  - English
N1  - Felicitas Becker.
ID  - 1669947564
ER  -