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Women striving for self-reliance. Diversity of female-headed households in Tanzania and the livelihood strategies they employ

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Authors
  • J.A. van Vuuren
Supervisors
  • A.J. Dietz
Award date 12-06-2003
Number of pages 286
Publisher Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam/AGIDS
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
Document type PhD thesis
Language English
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Titlepage
Contents
List of tables
List of tables, List of maps, List of boxes
List of figures, List of photos
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Female-headed households and poverty: concepts and reflections
4 The economy of Ndala village: analysis at the household level
5 Female heads of households: their livelihood strategies
6 Level of material well-being of female-headed households
7 The determinants of female headship in Sub-Saharan Africa
8 Summary, conclusions and reflections for the future
Appendix 1 Questionnaire for fieldwork in Ndala village (1994-1995)
Appendix 2 Economic data on Tanzania
Appendix 3 Cash income sources of households in Ndala village (1994)
Appendix 4 Possesion score
References
Muhtasari
Samenvatting
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