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Desired Fertility and Children Born across Time and Space

Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth - 2013

With about five children born per woman and a population growth rate of 2.5 per cent per year, sub-Saharan Africa has been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by...

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Overpopulation

Jackson, William A. - In: Encyclopedia of Global Studies, (pp. 1285-1286). 2012

This article discusses the concept of overpopulation and its practical relevance. Definitions of overpopulation are considered, including approaches centred on sustainability and on average or total welfare. Overpopulation has been linked to the wish for national population policies, which raise...

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How does moral knowledge matter in development practice, and how can it be researched?

Scholtes, Fabian - 2009

review of seminal contributions to Anthropology of Development, I suggest that the analysis of development practice needs to … perspective conceptually and in terms of operationalisation. For the conceptual part, I draw upon anthropology of morality to show … several aspects of moral knowledge, as well as problems of researching it. I also relate to anthropology of knowledge in order …

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Theories of the Family and Policy

Jacobsen, Veronica; Fursman, Lindy; Bryant, John; … - 2004

and individual behaviour for the likely success of policy intervention. Anthropology documents not only the universality …

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What does it mean to be poor? Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique

Jones, Sam; Tvedten, Inge - 2018

This paper reflects on the relationship between economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitative) approaches to the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different research approaches do not merely see the same poverty...

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Cultural Materialism and Institutional Economics

Jackson, William A. - In: Review of Social Economy 54 (1996) 2, pp. 221-244

Economics and culture have usually been kept apart in academic discussion. The resulting division is damaging to economics, since important cultural questions such as the formation of preferences, the influence of ideology and the relation between the individual and society are systematically...

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Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania: Grazing, Fishing and Farming at the Local–Global Interface

Allegretti, Antonio - 2022

Who are the rural people of Africa? What does it mean to be part of a 'rural' community in contemporary Tanzania? And why is it important to debate questions of African rurality beyond the mere GDP contribution of rural land-based production? This book seeks to address questions like these....

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Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Schöneich, Svenja (contributor) - 2022

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and...

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The collapse of cooperation: the endogeneity of institutional break-up and its asymmetry with emergence

Cordes, Christian; Elsner, Wolfram; Graebner, Claudius; … - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 31 (2021) 4, pp. 1291-1315

, anthropology, network analysis, and institutional economics. These perspectives cover individuals, groups, interaction …

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Pre-Industrial and Post-War Economic Development: Is There a Link?

Burkett, John; Humblet, Catherine; Putterman, Louis - 1997

What became the post-War era’s “less developed countries” (LDCs) varied enormously in their pre- modern or pre-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as that of the demographer Ester Boserup,...

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