Partners in underdevelopment? The transnationalisation thesis in a Kenyan context

Training in Kenya: need versus effective demand

“…They include some large farmers but are mainly resident in urban areas, particularly Nairobi, as owners of formal-sector firms, rentiers, professionals and high-level salary-earners in the private and public sectors. From them emanates the demand for high-cost mortgage housing and the skills to design and build it, for consumer durables which need servicing and repairing, for transnational consumer goods with all their technological, locational and hierarchical implications (see Godfrey & Langdon, 1976), for high-level professional services, etc. The tourism industry is an additional influence.…”

An Assessment of Empirical Research onDependencia

“…One project proposal is designed by Osvaldo Sunkel of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, England, henceforward referred to as the Sussex project (Sunkel and Fuenzalidal ')77, and Godfrey and Langdon 1976).12 This project would aim "at a better definition of concepts, at their operationalization into variables, and at the definition of the causal relationships among them." As such it recognizes that dependencia theory is not yet "accepted as a full-fledged theory, i.e., a set of abstract and general propositions from which particular hypotheses may be inferred and then put to empirical test by means of standard research procedures."…”

Rethinking Regional Inequality: The Case of Kenya

“…Indeed, the proletariat and peasantry have been extrinsic to political conflict in Kenya, which tends to be characterised by division within the bourgeoisie, notably between national and local elements (Lamb, 1974;Leo, 1978;Leys, 1975Leys, , 1982Rana, 1977), often stimulated by the dictates of international capitalism (Godfrey and Langdon, 1976;Kaplinsky, 1982;Kirinyaga, 1974;Langdon, 1976;Leys, 1975).…”