Making Africa middle class: From poverty reduction to the production of inequality in Tanzania

Maia Green

Economic Anthropology, 2015, vol. 2, issue 2, 295-309

Abstract: type="main" xml:id="sea212032-abs-0001"> Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are moving toward middle-income status at the same time as their middle classes are growing in size and influence. This article explores the role of middle-class economic strategies in bringing about structural changes in the organization of Tanzania's rural economy. Middle-class income strategies oriented toward a mediated relationship with agricultural production depend on the enclosure of productive resources on which rent can be levied and on specific styles of cultural performance. The growth of the middle classes in Tanzania has important implications for inequality, but the extension of middle-class cultural styles is not solely concerned with differentiation. It is part of a wider cultural shift in everyday social practice in Tanzania.

Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1002/sea2.12032 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:ecanth:v:2:y:2015:i:2:p:295-309

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.blackwell ... bs.asp?ref=2330-4847

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economic Anthropology from Wiley Blackwell
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().