The rural poor, the private sector and markets: Changing interactions in southern Africa

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dc.contributor.authorIDSen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:10:21Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:10:21Zen
dc.date.issued2003en
dc.description.abstractDrawing on case study material from the Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa programme, this article examines the turn to strategies for development in southern Africa, which seek to boost the access of the rural poor to new markets and investment opportunities. It investigates the prospects for "pro-poor" engagement with the private sector, and lists a number of policy measures needed in order to make such initiatives work for the benefit of rural livelihoods. Markets are highly politicised, the playing field is uneven and, without regulation and protection, poor communities are vulnerable to potential exploitation. Without concerted attention to improving the capacity of poor people to enter and engage with markets and to the distribution of benefits - through active state support and redistributive measures - the ideals of "pro-poor growth" and "private sector partnership" for development will remain more rhetorical gloss than reality.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier1656en
dc.identifier.citationIDS Bulletin 34(3): 64-78en
dc.identifier.issn0265-5012en
dc.identifier.other1656_The_Rural_Poor_the_Private_Sector_and_Ma.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66254en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherBrighton, U.K.: Kensington Pressen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/bulletin/bull343.htmen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2003 by Institute of Development Studiesen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectSemiarid zonesen
dc.subjectLocal marketsen
dc.subjectIncome generationen
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten
dc.subjectCommercializationen
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen
dc.subjectGovernment policyen
dc.subjectTropical zonesen
dc.subjectSubtropicsen
dc.subjectMarketsen
dc.subjectPovertyen
dc.subjectIncome diversificationen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Governanceen
dc.titleThe rural poor, the private sector and markets: Changing interactions in southern Africaen
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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