This book illustrates the enduring relevance and vitality of the
comparative political economy of development approach promoted
among others by a group of social scientists in Oxford in the 1980s
and 1990s. Contributors demonstrate the viability of this approach
as researchers and academics become more convinced of the
inadequacies of orthodox approaches to the understanding of
development.
Detailed case material obtained from comparative field research
in Africa and South Asia informs analyses of exploitation in
agriculture; the dynamics of rural poverty; seasonality; the non
farm economy; class formation; labour and unfreedom; the gendering
of the labour force; small scale production and contract farming;
social networks in industrial clusters; stigma and discrimination
in the rural and urban economy and its politics. Reasoned policy
suggestions are made and an analysis of the comparative political
economy of development approach is applied to the situation of
Africa and South Asia.
Aptly presenting the relation between theory and empirical
material in a dynamic and interactive way, the book offers
meaningful and powerful explanations of what is happening in the
continent of Africa and the sub-continent of South Asia today. It
will be of interest to researchers in the fields of development
studies, rural sociology, political economy, policy and practice of
development and Indian and African studies.
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