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Summary
The EEE research programme ‘The Political Economy of Poverty and Wealth in
Africa’ aims to arrive at a critical and integrated analysis of processes of
impoverishment and accumulation in African societies. The central question
of the programme is how the process of continued commoditization in Africa
and the related changes in social relations of production do affect people’s
access to resources and the institutions and relations through which these
resources are provided, and how does this, in turn, define their constraints
and opportunities for wealth accumulation. From a political economy
perspective the programme seeks to investigate development trajectories in
various African societies, the role of markets in these trajectories, and
the role of water as the most crucial natural resource in Africa besides
land. The programme includes case studies on selected countries (Ethiopia,
Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda) and commodities and products (among
others, coffee, horticultural products, food, financial services, land and
water). Transformations in societies and markets will be associated with the
changing social and political relationships between African people and those
in the OECD countries. Read further.
Sub programmes (each sub programme consists of several research projects):
1. Towards an
integrated understanding of (African) development theories
2. The
political economy of market development and integration
3. The
political economy of access to natural resources
Main text research programme
History of the
research group
ASC Researchers:
Akinyinka
Akinyoade,
Marleen Dekker,
Jan-Kees van Donge,
Dick Foeken,
Wijnand Klaver,
André Leliveld,
Marcel Rutten
Head of the theme group: André Leliveld
Associated Members: Jan Cappon,
Jan Hoorweg,
Samuel O. Owuor
(University of Nairobi),
John Sender
(School of Oriental and African Studies), Marja Spierenburg (Free
University, Amsterdam), Harry Wels (Free University, Amsterdam)
PhD's:
Marion
Eeckhout,
Romborah Simiyu,
Martin
van Vliet
Collaborating Institutes: University of Nairobi (Kenya), Moi
University (Kenya), School of Oriental and African Studies (London), World
Resources Institute (Washington, DC), Centre for Basic Research (Uganda)
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