Brokering Development?

The Private Sector and Unalleviated Poverty in Tanzania's Agricultural Growth Corridors
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5952-8
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Political science

Recent portrayals of the private sector as the engine of poverty alleviation in Africa's agricultural growth corridors have sparked critique by scholars and activists alike. Land acquisitions by investors are the most criticized, but the private sector engages in corridors in other ways, on which research remains scarce. Idil Ires provides a political economy analysis of whether smallholders prosper when they coordinate with input suppliers, banks, and crop buyers through markets and contract farming in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania. This book will appeal to scholars and practitioners from diverse fields, offering timely insights into a critical debate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ires, Idil

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme

Über Autor(innen)

Idil Ires is a visiting researcher at Research for Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) in Dar es Salaam. She did a joint-PhD in political science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and geography at King's College London while she was with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Her work specializes in agrarian political economy, natural resource governance, and rural development discourses in Ethiopia and Tanzania.