Moving in circles
Subtitle: underdevelopment and the narrative of uncertainty in the global periphery
By: Ignasio Malizani Jimu
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Mankon, Bamenda
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9789956763269
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Sustainable development; Government policy; Economic conditions; Economic development; Social conditions; Rural poor; Economic history
Other titles: Underdevelopment and the narrative of uncertainty in the global periphery
Description: Moving in Circles draws on Walter Rodney's treatise on underdevelopment. Underdevelopment is to be associated with various factors contributing to the uncertainties that lack of progress begets, regardless of its genesis. Some of the indicators of this condition are pervasive poverty, liquidation of productive assets, and precarious livelihoods. Uncertainty stands out as a cost as it is also a catalyst for low investment in agriculture, low returns non-agricultural activities, inconsistent approach to planning and rule of law and more generally socio-economic backwardness. Development should in a broad sense entail meeting human needs, actualization of local and domestic potential and liberation from uncertainty. In the long term, for development talk to be meaningful, there is a need for progressive transformation of underlying structures, improvement in productive capacity and general adherence to principles of good governance: openness and transparency, accountability and meaningful popular engagement.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-257).
Table of contents: title: Malawi: the meaning and content of development; title: Space, place, and urban economic informality; title: Agriculture and the development impasse; title: Commodification of customary land relations in peri-urban villages; title: Multitasking and livelihood diversification; title: Perspectives on gender and development; title: Moving in circles.