Gift Wasambo Kayira

The State and the Legacies of British Colonial Development in Malawi

Confronting Poverty, 1939-1983

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the discourse of development in Malawi and how it unfolded through a milliard of experts and institutions that expressed interest in the plight of the poor and yet did little to achieve their goals between the 1930s and 1983.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9781666921656
• ISBN-10: 1666921653
• Artikelnr.: 66136517

Autorenporträt

Gift Wasambo Kayira is senior lecturer of history at the University of Malawi.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures, Tables, and Maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: The Poor and British Development Discourse in Africa,
1909-1970s
Chapter Two: The Land-poverty Nexus in Colonial Malawi, 1930s-1965
Chapter Three: Whose Interests? The State, Industry, and Rural Development,
1930s-1953
Chapter Four: Confronting Poverty: The State, ODM and World Bank Triad,
1960s-1970s
Chapter Five: Experts, Planners, and the Tampered Rural Development,
1960s-1981
Chapter Six: Malawi's Foreign Policy and the Fruitless Search for
Investment Capital, 1960s-1980
Conclusion: Some Reflections on the State and the War on Poverty
Bibliography
Index
About the Author