The politics of poverty policy-making and development in rural Tanzania
Felicitas Becker
The politics of poverty policy-making and development in rural Tanzania - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2019 - vii,366p.:ill.map.;23cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
9781108739245
Rural poor--Tanzania.
339.460 BEC
The politics of poverty policy-making and development in rural Tanzania - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2019 - vii,366p.:ill.map.;23cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
9781108739245
Rural poor--Tanzania.
339.460 BEC