E. Wayne Nafziger, Wayne Nafziger

Inequality in Africa

Political Elites, Proletariat, Peasants and the Poor

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Because of the population growth in Africa, maintaining past trends means degrading human dignity for the majority, with a rural population surviving on intolerable toil, disastrous land scarcity, and worsening urban crisis, with more shanty towns, congested roads, unemployed, beggars, crime, and misery alongside the few unashamedly demonstrating greater conspicuous consumption, shopping at national department stores fill with luxury imports.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780521317030
• ISBN-10: 0521317037
• Artikelnr.: 33869593

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Abbreviations
Map
1. Equality and growth: tradeoff or interlink?
2. Research without statistics: what are the questions?
3. African incomes in global perspective
4. The great descent: inequality and immiserisation
5. The colonial roots
6. Transnational relationships
7. Capitalism, socialism, development and inequality
8. The ruling class and the people: conflict and discrepancies
9. Workers, the unemployed, peasants and women
10. Maintaining class: the role of education
11. Urban bias and rural poverty
12. Catching the Nigerian disease: the ruling class and exchange rates
13. Regional and ethnic inequality
14. Income distribution in the late twentieth century
Notes
Bibliography
Index.