Howland, O., Noe, C. and Brockington, D. orcid.org/0000-0001-5692-0154 (2021) The multiple meanings of prosperity and poverty : a cross-site comparison from Tanzania. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48 (1). pp. 180-200. ISSN 0306-6150
Abstract
Assets are important to local definitions of poverty and wealth in rural Africa. Yet their use in asset indices can miss locally valued change. We present data from 17 villages across Tanzania to explore differences in the meaning of wealth and poverty across the country. Despite limitations in our site selection we found considerable diversity that makes a single asset index difficult to compile. Current abbreviated asset indices risk counting assets that do not matter locally.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Assets; development data; Tanzania; poverty; wealth |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2019 13:25 |
Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2021 17:30 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03066150.2019.1658080 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:153688 |