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Article: Migration and differentiation in western Kenya: a tale of two sub-locations.
- Article from:
- Journal of Development Studies
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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I. INTRODUCTION
The 1970s and early 1980s witnessed an extensive debate over the direction and causes of economic change in smallholder areas of Kenya. Contributors ranged from neo-classical economists such as Collier and Lal [1984; 1986] to Marxists such as Njonjo [1981]. However, the 'Kenya Debate' had lost impetus by the mid-1980s. There were several reasons for this, but the most important was the absence of geographically widespread micro studies of long-term agrarian change from which generalisations could be derived.(1) Many contributions to the debate were not based on empirical research. The majority of studies and polemical writings focused on Central ...