The aim of this paper was to examine the determinants of over education and under education in the formal labour market of Tanzania. The study employed cross sectional and worker self-assessment (WSA) techniques. Interviews were conducted to collect data from 319 employees. Using multinomial...

The World Development Report 2000|01 builds a complex picture of poverty, and a comprehensive approach to its reduction, which challenges the still dominant neo-liberal paradigm. The significance of inequality in determining the outcomes of economic growth, of vulnerability and the need for an...

Andrew Shepherd suggests that there is an inter-disciplinary meeting point between concepts of ‘poverty traps’ and ‘adverse incorporation’, and suggests that the cutting edge of research on chronic poverty lies in the interaction of asset dynamics, insecurity and changing social...

Food security is of vital importance to all nations, but particularly so in developing countries. Governments worldwide are seeking to liberalize agricultural trade, and to change their role from one of controlling trade and prices. Instead these governments seek new roles in encouraging market...