Globalization, urban progress, urban problems, rural disadvantages : evidence from Mozambique
Using theoretical and empirical evidence from Mozambique, this text shows the mutual effects of, and interconnections between, globalization, urbanization and rural stagnation. It analyzes rural conditions in the context of Southern Africa, and presents aspects of an alternative development.
Print Book, English, ©2000
Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, ©2000
xviii, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9781840148435, 1840148438
41018238
General information on Mozambique
pt. I. Introduction and Theoretical Basis
1. Areas of inquiry and methodology
2. Urbanization and globalization
pt. II. The Twofold Gap and the Rural
Peri-Urban
Urban Changes
3. Socio-economic characteristics of the three investigated areas: poverty and relative prosperity
4. Poverty and dissatisfaction
job satisfaction
5. Migration as a consequence of globalization
6. Housing in the two urban worlds and the neglected countryside
7. Housing and services as problems
8. Female household heads
9. Urbanization and the decline of specific social interactions
10. Satisfaction and depression in favourable and extreme adverse conditions
pt. III. Globalization and Poverty
11. The root causes of Third World poverty in a globalizing world
12. Aspects of an alternative development and an alternative globalization