Download or read book Politics, Participation, And Poverty written by Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1985-10-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the competition, through self-help, for power and scarce resources, at the effect of group activity on household economic behaviour, and at the contribution of these organisations to building rural patterns of stratification and the ideological role of self-help in state formation; addresses whether Harambee can lead to structural change and to a more equitable distribution of national resources, or if it simply encourages existing regional, class ethnic or gender differences. (Author).