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Social Economy and Welfare in Rural Tanzania – Insights from an Empirical Study of Lyamungu Region

  • Journal of Regional Studies and Development
  • Abbr : JRSD
  • 2016, (), pp.73-110
  • DOI : 10.18350/ipaid.2016.25s.73
  • Publisher : Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development: IPAID
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Regional Studies in general > Comparative / Statistical Regional Studies
  • Published : March 25, 2016

Park, Hyunsoo 1 Baek, Inrib 2 Lee,Ju-Sam 2 CHANG SOO KIM 2 Kim Heung Ju 2 Jang, Hoseok 3 김희년 2 JAEHOON WHANG 2

1순천향대학교
2연세대학교
3한국소비자보호원

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ABSTRACT

Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development(IPAID) at Yonsei university performed a survey on Lyamungu village of Tanzania in May 2014. In this village, 32,000 residents are living, there are 3,600 households. The Main tribe of this village is Mboya, and the main agricultural products of Lyamungu are maize, beans, banana, coffee, etc. The contents of questionnaire are the following: household identification, household composition, land, crops/income, fertilizer, pesticide/herbicide, water management for farming, household assets, livestock, expenditure on livelihood, expenditure in farming, saving/lending/borrowing, energy use behavior, social capital, health/sanitation/disability, quality of life. Out of 3,600 households in Lyamungu, 150 households were surveyed with the questionnaire. IPAID conducted also an in-depth interview with the village head. This study aims to introduce the contents of questionnaire and to analyze our survey data. IPAID is going to do an intensive analysis with this data and expects to contribute on poverty alleviation of the villages in Tanzania.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.