Assessment of Long-term Development in Zambia

赞比亚长期发展评估

• 批准号: 8718769
• 负责人: Douglas White
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institute for Development Anthropology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-02-15 至 1990-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8718769&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Assessment; Long; term; Development; Zambia

This award to the Institute for Development Anthropology, a non- profit research organization, will allow three senior anthropologists to oversee the prototype research to establish linked longitudinal field research sites wherein anthropologists can test hypotheses about economic development and social change. Extensive work by two of the PIs over the past 30 years has established a rich database on four Tonga villages in the Gwembe Valley, Zambia. The present research will computerize the data into an annualized time-series, process the most recent (1981/2) census and extend the database to 1988. They will also construct an exogenous factor database of world economic changes which have impacted this region (including wages, commodity prices, and ecological and environmental data). They will use remote sensing data to construct an allied database of environmental data. This research is important because it is a beginning in a long- term procedure to create a comparative theoretical and factual framework. Studies in isolated villages in distant regions of the world can be productively compared against a framework of quantitative measurements of world processes. Theories about causes and consequences of economic development will be able to be tested quantitatively with reference to a wide range of economic, social, environemtal and ecological variables.

这项授予发展人类学研究所（一个非营利研究组织）的奖项将使三名高级人类学家能够监督原型研究，以建立相互联系的纵向实地研究地点，人类学家可以在这些地点测试有关经济发展和社会变革的假设。其中两名方案执行干事在过去30年中开展了大量工作，建立了关于赞比亚Gwembe山谷四个汤加村庄的内容丰富的数据库。目前的研究将把这些数据计算成一个按年计算的时间序列，处理最近的（1981/1982年）人口普查，并将数据库扩大到1988年。他们还将建立一个影响该地区的世界经济变化的外部因素数据库（包括工资、商品价格以及生态和环境数据）。他们将利用遥感数据建立一个环境数据联合数据库。这项研究是重要的，因为它是一个长期程序的开始，以创建一个比较的理论和事实框架。在世界偏远地区的孤立村庄进行的研究可以与世界进程的定量测量框架进行富有成效的比较。关于经济发展的原因和后果的理论将能够参照广泛的经济、社会、生态和生态变量进行定量检验。