Politics, participation, and poverty : development through self-help in Kenya /

Focusing on the distribution of benefits in relation to class, ethnicity, and gender, this book explores the methods to which the rural poor can organize themselves to participate in economic and social development and examines the roles that self-help organizations play in the political economy of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas-Slayter, Barbara P. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Organizing the Rural Disadvantaged
  • A Framework for Examining Self-Help: National, Historical, and Community Perspectives
  • The Role of Self-Help in the Political Process
  • Patterns of Access and Advantage in Self-Help: The Province, the District, and the Local Community
  • Self-Help Community Projects: From Rhetoric to Reality
  • Self-Help and Rural Stratification: Who Wins and Who Loses?
  • Women's Self-Help Associations: Agents for Change or Techniques for Survival?
  • Development Dilemmas: The Politics of Participation in Self-Help
  • Epilogue Harambee Revisited, 1985