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Group Behaviour and Development: Is the Market Destroying Cooperation?(WIDER Studies in Development Economics)

Group Behaviour and Development: Is the Market Destroying Cooperation?(WIDER Studies in Development Economics)


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This text focuses on group behaviour in developing countries. It includes studies of producer and community organizations, NGOs, and some public sector groups. Despite the fact that most economic decisions are taken by people acting within groups - families, firms, neighbourhood or community associations, and networks of producers - the analysis of group functioning has not received enough attention, particularly among economists. Some groups function well, from the perspectives of equity, efficiency, and well-being, while others do not. This book explores why The text covers groups that perform three types of function: overcoming market failures (for example, producer organizations); improving the position of their members (for example, Trade Unions), and distributing resources to the less well-off (for example, NGOs and the public sector) It contrasts three modes of group behaviour: power and control; co-operation; and the use of material incentives, exploring what determines modes of behaviour of groups, and the consequences for efficiency, equity, and well-being.

Table of Contents:
1: Judith Heyer, J. Mohan Rao, Frances Stewart, and Rosemary Thorp: Group Behaviour and Development 2: Frances Stewart: Dynamic Interactions Between the Macro-environment, Development Thinking, and Group Behaviour 3: Sabina Alkire and Séverine Deneulin: Individual Motivation, its Nature, Determinants, and Consequences for Within-group Behaviour 4: Frederic Gaspart and Jean-Philippe Platteau: Collective Action for Local-Level Effort Regulation: An Assessment of Recent Experiences in Senegalese Small-Scale Fisheries 5: Tito Bianchi: Leaders and Intermediaries as Economic Development Agents in Producers' Associations 6: Larry Burmeister, Gustav Ranis, and Michael Wang: Group Behaviour and Development: A Comparison of Farmers' Organizations in South Korea and Taiwan 7: Rosemary Thorp: Has the Coffee Federation Become Redundant? Collective Action and the Market in Colombian Development 8: David Sneath: Producer Groups and the Decollectivization of the Mongolian Pastoral Economy 9: Bina Agarwal: The Hidden Side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South Asia 10: Simeen Mahmud: Information Women's Groups in Rural Bangladesh: Group Operation and Outcomes 11: Nandini Gooptu: Sex Workers in Calcutta and the Dynamics of Collective Action: Political Activism, Community Identity, and Group Behaviour 12: Maureen Mackintosh and Lucy Gilson: Non-market Relationships in Health Care 13: Paula Tibandebage and Maureen Mackintosh: Institutional Cultures and Regulatory Relationships in a Liberalizing Health Care System: A Tanzanian Case Study 14: Christy Cannon Lorgen: The Case of Indigenous NGOs in Uganda's Health Sector 15: Judith Heyer, Frances Stewart, and Rosemary Thorp: Conclusions

About the Author :
Judith Heyer has worked on different aspects of rural development in Kenya and in Tropical Africa. Her work on Kenya has included work on agricultural policy issues related to production and marketing, food policy, and poverty. She has also worked on villages in South India with a special interest in gender, caste, and class. She has been a Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Somerville, and University Lecturer at Oxford University since 1975. and before that lectured at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Frances Stewart is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the International Development Centre, University of Oxford and a fellow of Somerville College. Her major research interests concern the impact of development processes on poor people. She has worked on appropriate technology, basic needs and the impact of adjustment policies on poverty. Recent work has focussed on the economic and social causes and consequences of large scale violent conflict, as well as on group behaviour. Rosemary Thorp has been the Lecturer in the Economics of Latin America at the University of Oxford since 1971. Before that she taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research has been in the field of economic history of Latin America and the macro economic management problems of that continent. She has worked extensively on Peru, Chile, and Colombia.

Review :
... an exceptionally useful resource for practitioners and researchers interested in collective action issues. The Journal of Development Studies The timeliness of the volume can hardly be overstated ... The book's importance lies in its original choice of analytical framework, and its principal conclusions. The Journal of Development Studies


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199256914
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: WIDER Studies in Development Economics
  • Sub Title: Is the Market Destroying Cooperation?
  • Width: 163 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199256918
  • Publisher Date: 19 Sep 2002
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Weight: 693 gr


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