Dissertation Research: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Jamaica

该项目将使一名人类学研究生能够前往牙买加的农村地区，研究农村农户生产市场作物对其生计的影响。研究人员将分析家庭样本中的资源分布，并参考官方数据，以评估商业生产和家庭不同的经济和社会战略对其生存和营养以及经济福祉的影响。这项研究很重要，因为贫穷发展中国家的农村部门正在迅速融入国家经济，如果不是国际经济的话。增进对农村贫困人口生存战略的了解有助于找出农村地区问题的根源，并有助于规划者制定政策以改善农村贫困和动乱。

This project will allow a graduate student in anthropology to travel to a rural area of Jamaica to study how rural farm families' production of market crops impacts upon their subsistence. The researcher will analyze the distribution of resources in a sample of households and consult official data to assess the impact of commercial production and varying economic and social strategies of families upon their subsistence and nutritional as well as economic well being. This research is important because the rural sector of poor, developing countries is rapidly being integrated into the national if not the international economy. Improved knowledge of the survival strategies of the rural poor can help identify sources of problems in rural areas and can help planners to create policies to ameliorate rural poverty and unrest.