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Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania (2018)
Journal Article
Brockington, D., Howland, O., Loiske, V., Mnzava, M., & Noe, C. (2018). Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania. Journal of Modern African Studies, 56(2), 217-243. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x18000186

Measures of poverty based on consumption suggest that recent economic growth in many African countries has not been inclusive, particularly in rural areas. We argue that measures of poverty using assets may provide a different picture. We present dat... Read More about Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania.

Tracing Improving Livelihoods in Rural Africa Using Local Measures of Wealth: A Case Study from Central Tanzania, 1991–2016 (2018)
Journal Article
Östberg, W., Howland, O., Mduma, J., & Brockington, D. (2018). Tracing Improving Livelihoods in Rural Africa Using Local Measures of Wealth: A Case Study from Central Tanzania, 1991–2016. Land, 7(2), Article 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/land7020044

We studied livelihood changes and poverty dynamics over a 25-year period in two villages in central Tanzania. The villages were, from the early 1990s and 2000s, strikingly poor with between 50% and 55% of families in the poorest wealth groups. 25 yea... Read More about Tracing Improving Livelihoods in Rural Africa Using Local Measures of Wealth: A Case Study from Central Tanzania, 1991–2016.