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Author Clough, Paul, 1948- author.

Title Morality and economic growth in rural West Africa : a descriptive economics of the common people of Hausaland / Paul Clough
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (468 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents An introduction to the political economy and culture of Marmara Hamlet -- The cultural logic of non-capitalist accumulation -- Land distribution and land transfers -- Farm labouring systems -- Credit relations and social consumption -- Inter-regional produce markets -- Rural produce traders and wealth acquisition -- Economic change from 1985 to 1998 -- Change, continuity -- and growth
Summary The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hausa (African people) -- Nigeria, Northern -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Hausa (African people) -- Social networks -- Nigeria, Northern
Economic development -- Nigeria, Northern
Social networks -- Nigeria, Northern
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Economic development
Economic history
Hausa (African people) -- Economic conditions
Social conditions
Social networks
SUBJECT Nigeria, Northern -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Nigeria, Northern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Northern Nigeria
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782382713
1782382712