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Title: | Neo-liberalism, agricultural transformation and the welfare of the elderly in Tanzania: the case study of Bukoba District |
Author: | Kashaga, Frateline |
Year: | 2012 |
Periodical: | Utafiti (ISSN 0856-096X) |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 31-48 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | Haya elderly poverty economic policy social security rural society |
External link: | https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/uj/article/view/1348 |
Abstract: | This study applies the theoretical framework of African Moral Economy to the Haya people in Bukoba District, Tanzania, to investigate how Tanzania's economic policies have adversely affected the social protection for the elderly in rural areas. The author shows how commoditization and individualization as a result of neoliberal policies had a negative impact on the livelihoods of African smallholders. This has affected Haya communal life, which used to be based on kinships and clanships that formed the bedrock of traditional social security. This, in turn, has caused an unprecedented decline of the material conditions of the elderly, who are increasingly subjected to destitution, death by preventable diseases, and work into old age. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |