Group Behaviour and Development

Is the Market Destroying Cooperation?
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-925691-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 693 g

This text focuses on group behaviour in developing countries. It includes studies of producer and community organizations, NGOs and some public sector groups. Some groups function well, from the perspectives of equity, efficiency and well-being, while others do not. This book explores why, examining modes of group behaviour and their consequences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heyer, Judith

Stewart, Frances

Thorp, Rosemary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Behaviourismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.