Jaovola Tombo
Biographic Data
| ID | 110545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaovola Tombo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaovola |
| FAMILY NAME | Tombo |
| SIGNATURE | TOMBO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toliara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethnic Markers without Ethnic Conflict: Why do Interdependent Masikoro, Mikea, and Vezo of Madagascar Signal their Ethnic Differences
Inequalities beyond the Gini: Subsistence, social structure, gender, and markets in southwestern Madagascar
Development economists typically apply the same measures of inequality to the Global South as capitalist economies, such as Gini coefficients calculated over cash earnings (income) or asset value (wealth). Yet many rural peoples straddle the market economy of cash and wages and the nonmarket economy of gifts and obligations. We examine inequality in the context of Masikoro farmers, Mikea forager-farmers, and Vezo marine fishers of rural southwest…
Beyond Mean and Variance: Economic Risk Versus Perceived Risk of Farming, Foraging, and Fishing Activities in Southwestern Madagascar
When the Wealthy Are Poor: Poverty Explanations and Local Perspectives in Southwestern Madagascar
To reduce poverty, one must understand what poverty means in local contexts. We used focus groups to elicit a "folk model" of poverty from Masikoro, Vezo, and Mikea people in rural southwestern Madagascar and then placed this model in dialogue with four social science models: economic growth, substantivism, mode of production, and livelihoods. The folk model emphasizes household continuity, production of people, and exploitative expropriation by …
When the Wealthy Are Poor: Poverty Explanations and Local Perspectives in Southwestern Madagascar
To reduce poverty, one must understand what poverty means in local contexts. We used focus groups to elicit a "folk model" of poverty from Masikoro, Vezo, and Mikea people in rural southwestern Madagascar and then placed this model in dialogue with four social science models: economic growth, substantivism, mode of production, and livelihoods. The folk model emphasizes household continuity, production of people, and exploitative expropriation by …
Inequalities beyond the Gini: Subsistence, social structure, gender, and markets in southwestern Madagascar
Development economists typically apply the same measures of inequality to the Global South as capitalist economies, such as Gini coefficients calculated over cash earnings (income) or asset value (wealth). Yet many rural peoples straddle the market economy of cash and wages and the nonmarket economy of gifts and obligations. We examine inequality in the context of Masikoro farmers, Mikea forager-farmers, and Vezo marine fishers of rural southwest…
Ethnic Markers without Ethnic Conflict: Why do Interdependent Masikoro, Mikea, and Vezo of Madagascar Signal their Ethnic Differences
Beyond Mean and Variance: Economic Risk Versus Perceived Risk of Farming, Foraging, and Fishing Activities in Southwestern Madagascar
When the Wealthy Are Poor: Poverty Explanations and Local Perspectives in Southwestern Madagascar
To reduce poverty, one must understand what poverty means in local contexts. We used focus groups to elicit a "folk model" of poverty from Masikoro, Vezo, and Mikea people in rural southwestern Madagascar and then placed this model in dialogue with four social science models: economic growth, substantivism, mode of production, and livelihoods. The folk model emphasizes household continuity, production of people, and exploitative expropriation by …
Beyond Mean and Variance: Economic Risk Versus Perceived Risk of Farming, Foraging, and Fishing Activities in Southwestern Madagascar
Inequalities beyond the Gini: Subsistence, social structure, gender, and markets in southwestern Madagascar
Development economists typically apply the same measures of inequality to the Global South as capitalist economies, such as Gini coefficients calculated over cash earnings (income) or asset value (wealth). Yet many rural peoples straddle the market economy of cash and wages and the nonmarket economy of gifts and obligations. We examine inequality in the context of Masikoro farmers, Mikea forager-farmers, and Vezo marine fishers of rural southwest…
Ethnic Markers without Ethnic Conflict: Why do Interdependent Masikoro, Mikea, and Vezo of Madagascar Signal their Ethnic Differences
Agriculture (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Subsistence agriculture (2 works) · Agrarian society (1 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)