Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars

by Githinji, Mwangi Wa

• ISBN13: 9780754610809
• ISBN10: 0754610802
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
Foreword	xi
Acknowledgments	xvi
Why Search for Millionaires or Beggars?	1	(5)
Justifying the Search	1	(1)
The Nature of the Search	2	(4)
Dualism and Income Distribution in Economics	6	(20)
Introduction	6	(2)
The Classical School and Income Distribution	8	(4)
Dualism and Post War Development Theory	12	(3)
Review of Past Studies of Income Distribution in Kenya	15	(8)
Conclusions	23	(3)
Income Distribution in Kenya: Small Islands of Plenty in a Sea of Poverty	26	(18)
Introduction	26	(1)
The Data	26	(1)
Rural Income	27	(4)
Urban Income	31	(1)
National Estimates	32	(1)
Reliability of Estimates	33	(1)
Sources of Income	34	(3)
Rural - Urban Comparisons and the Distribution of Income	37	(4)
Conclusions	41	(3)
Land, Gender and Education: Accounting for Difference in Kenya	44	(42)
Introduction	44	(1)
The Rural Sector: Looking for Homogeneous Peasants	44	(22)
A Tale of Different Cities and Different Outcomes	66	(17)
Conclusions	83	(3)
Time Allocation in Rural Kenya: Who Does What Work?	86	(19)
Introduction	86	(3)
The Division of Work by Gender and Age in Rural Kenya	89	(3)
Relationship to the Head of Household and the Allocation of Work	92	(11)
Conclusions	103	(2)
The Distribution of Work and Income in Rural Kenya: Are All Rural Residents Underemployed?	105	(25)
Introduction	105	(1)
Household Characteristics and Total Household Work	106	(1)
The Distribution of Work among Households	107	(7)
Gender and the Distribution of Work among Households	114	(1)
The Distribution of Work and Income	115	(13)
Conclusions	128	(2)
Urban Time Allocation: The More Things Change the More they Remain the Same!	130	(23)
Introduction	130	(2)
Urban Time Allocation	132	(5)
Relation to Head of Household and the Allocation of Work	137	(7)
The Distribution of Work and Income in Urban Kenya	144	(6)
Conclusion	150	(3)
Mafelahi ama Wafanya Kazi: Workers or Peasants? Class and Development in Rural Kenya	153	(26)
Introduction	153	(2)
Different Pictures of Change in Rural Kenya	155	(2)
A New Sketch of Rural Kenya	157	(6)
A Marxian Disaggregated Class Analysis	163	(11)
Conclusions	174	(5)
Conclusions: The Thin Edge of the Wedge!	179	(11)
Introduction	179	(1)
Not All are Equal	180	(7)
Inequality, Growth and Stability	187	(3)
Bibliography	190