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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.
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.
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
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.
... 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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