Livelihood Options? The Political Economy of Access, Opportunity and Diversification
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vi 1 Definitions and Dimensions of Livelihood Diversification 1 1.1 Definitions of diversification: multiplicity and/or change? 1 1.2 Livelihoods in the economy: basic dimensions of livelihood activities 1 2 Structural Transformation and the Non-farm Economy 4 2.1 Industrialisation and urbanisation 4 2.2 Regional growth theory and the rise and fall of the rural non-farm economy 5 2.3 Global structural transformations in agriculture and industry 7 2.4 The impacts of change and transformations 9 2.5 Three approaches to understanding rural change and transformation 11 3 Livelihood Strategies: Assets, Activities and Well-being 14 3.1 Micro-economic models of livelihood 14 3.2 Towards a basic framework 17 3.3 Taking assets further 19 3.4 Terms of transformation 21 3.5 Preference, choice and well-being strategies 24 4 Adaptable Systems: Vulnerability, Coping and Diversification 28 4.1 Exogenous forces and mediating factors 28 4.2 Risk, diversification and insurance 29 4.3 Coping strategies 30 4.4 Vulnerability and capability 31 5 Segmented Opportunity: Social Structures and Processes of Access, Production and Exchange 33 5.1 Theories of distribution, production and exchange 33 5.2 Surplus, access and class 34 5.3 Social processes of production and exchange: interlinked markets in rural India 37 6 Rural Transformation, Occupational Diversification and Social Change 39 6.
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