The multiple meanings of prosperity and poverty: a cross-site comparison from Tanzania

Howland, Olivia; Noe, Christine; Brockington, Dan

doi:10.1080/03066150.2019.1658080

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“…These measures include subjective, relational and objective components 10,[13][14][15] , and require either intensive and costly primary data collection or relying on existing data collected for other purposes 9,10 . Wealth and wellbeing are conceptualised differently by different groups of people 16 (e.g. cattle are central to Maasai cultural identity and livelihoods, but play a lesser role for some groups in Tanzania 17 ).…”

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Impact of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas on household wealth

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Large-scale area-based conservation measures affect millions of people globally. Understanding their social impacts is necessary to improve effectiveness and minimise negative consequences. However, quantifying the impacts of conservation measures that affect large geographic areas and diverse peoples is expensive and methodologically challenging, particularly because such evaluations should capture locally-defined conceptions of wellbeing while permitting policy-relevant comparisons. We measure the impact of Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), a national community-based conservation and poverty reduction initiative. We used a novel, cost-effective impact evaluation method based on participatory wealth-ranking and Bayesian multilevel modelling. We find that from 2007-2015 the impacts of WMAs on wealth were small and variable, with no clear evidence of widespread poverty reduction. Accompanying qualitative data suggest that apparently positive effects in one WMA cannot be directly attributed to WMA activities. Our results suggest that current WMA policy needs to be revisited if it is to promote positive economic development. WMA name Region (Study Area) Year initiated Year gazetted Level of restrictions Generation of revenues

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“…Many of the changes in wealth, as described by the villagers who experienced them, are best captured by exploring changes to assets. As we describe in the companion papers in this issue, and have reported elsewhere, assets are important in local definitions of wealth (Brockington et al 2018;Östberg et al 2018;Howland, Noe, and Brockington 2019;Brockington 2019b). Yet, as we have argued in these same papers, investment in assets can be poorly captured by standard measures of poverty such as poverty lines built on household consumption data.…”

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“…Narayan 2000). Group discussions in Tanzanian villages about wealth tend to focus on the quality of houses, amount of land farmed, size of herds and the abilities and freedoms that derive from owning these things, rather than income per se (Howland, Noe, and Brockington 2019). Similarly poverty is defined, in part, by the lack of access to important assets.…”

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“…Second, as Johnston and Abreu demonstrate (2016), and as we discuss in a companion paper, asset indices are assumed to reflect underlying wealth (Howland, Noe, and Brockington 2019). However unless they are confined to relatively small areas and groups then they will also reflect variation in cultural preferences (which determine which assets people invest in) as well as broader infrastructural provision (such as the availability of electricity).…”

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“…Asset indices also have a well recognised urban bias (Howe et al 2012). They can differentiate urban populations from rural populations but do not necessarily indicate the wealth of rural communities, which may prioritise different asset bundles, based on land, livestock and agricultural technology (Howland, Noe, and Brockington 2019).…”

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The multiple meanings of prosperity and poverty: a cross-site comparison from Tanzania

Cited by 12 publications

References 31 publications

Impact of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas on household wealth

Impact of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas on household wealth

Assets and domestic units: methodological challenges for longitudinal studies of poverty dynamics

The work of class: Cash transfers and community development in Tanzania

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