Poverty, Migration and Unemployment in Dumisa, a Rural Area of Kwazulu
Author : Zamakhosi Mpanza
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Blacks
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Author : Zamakhosi Mpanza
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Blacks
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Author : Elisabeth Ardington
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Page : 164 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Black people
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Author : Michael Rogan
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Page : 65 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
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Category : Migration, Internal
ISBN : 9780981430416
Author : Carlos Oya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317562917
There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book aims to fill this gap by bringing together a group of contributors who boast substantial field experience researching rural wage employment in various developing countries. It provides critical perspectives on mainstream approaches to rural/agrarian development, and analysis of agrarian change and rural transformations from a long-term perspective. This book challenges the notion that rural areas in low- and middle-income countries are dominated by self-employment. It purports that this conventional view is largely due to the application of conceptual frameworks and statistical conventions that are ill-equipped to capture labour market participation. The contributions in this book offer a variety of methodological lessons for the study of rural labour markets, focusing in particular on the use of mixed methods in micro-level field research, and more emphasis on capturing occupation multiplicity. The emphasis on context, history, and specific configurations of power relations affecting rural labour market outcomes are key and reoccurring features of this book. This analysis will help readers think about policy options to improve the quantity and quality of rural wage employment, their impact on the poorest rural people, and their political feasibility in each context.
Author : Edward Lahiff
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780714651378
"The study concludes that there is scope for further development of the agricultural economy at Tshiombo but this will require comprehensive reform of existing state services such as tractor ploughing and agricultural extension. More flexible partnerships between the state and non-state organisations, including private entrepreneurs, individual farmers and the struggling Tshiombo Co-operative in the provision of credit, marketing and transport services are also identified as areas suitable for development. Constraints of land, capital and household labour suggest that in most cases agriculture is likely to remain supplementary to income obtained from the non-farm economy, but can be a valuable source of food and an important safety-net in times of crisis."--BOOK JACKET.
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Page : 814 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Rural development
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Author : University of Natal. Centre for Applied Social Sciences
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Social sciences
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Page : 86 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Land reform
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Author : Brent McCusker
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Famines
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Author : Bill Freund
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
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Durban is a remarkable place in which to test propositions about the significance of the city and the significance of change. New urban literature tends to divide very sharply between the problems faced by cities with major resources at the center and the problems faced by cities at the periphery. Many South African cities are simultaneously the site of both kinds of phenomena. These cities have strong traditions of forceful planning from above with considerable capacity to finance change. They witness industrialization, but they are also the site of massive squatter settlements and populations that fall outside the functioning of the "formal" economy. This book highlights the role of networks and the co-operation for survival by Durban's newer citizens as they make space for themselves. In an era of fundamental power shifts, the constant need for re-invention and adaptation to social and economic change, Durban is a genuine social vortex. Through the work of writers from a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the transition since the 1970s and explores contemporary challenges facing Durban.