Some groups function well, from the perspectives of equity, efficiency, and well-being, while others do not. This book explores why. It covers groups that perform three types of function: overcoming market failures (e.g. producer organizations); improving the position of their members (e.g. Trade Unions), and distributing resources to the less well-off (e.g. NGOs and the public sector). It contrasts three modes of group behaviour: power and control; cooperation; and the use of material incentives. It explores what determines modes of behaviour of groups, and the consequences for efficiency, equity, and well-being.
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... 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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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.
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Most economic decisions are taken by people acting within, and very often on behalf of, groups. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bono functions, market failure groups, mozzarella producers, pro bono groups, homo wconomicus, purse seine fishermen, operating canoes, health policy literature, pastoral operations, sheep units, pastoral households, coffee committees, buffalo ranchers, firewood shortages, societal equity, irrigation groups, homo ceconomicus, pastoral sector, pond fishery, marketing intermediaries, coffee sector, line fishermen, forestry groups, sex workers, effort regulation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coffee Federation, Latin America, Second World War, National Statistical Office of Mongolia, West Bengal, Putul Singh, South Asia, Bufala Campana, Catholic Church, Komal Gandhar, Asian Development Bank, Bayan Uul, East Asia, Fair Trade, First National Conference of Sex Workers, Grameen Bank, Mahila Sangha, Uma Mondal, Consorzio Mozzarella, Mala Singh, The Telegraph, Anima Banerjee, Bayan Tsagaan, Government Religious, Sadhana Mukherjee New!
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Most economic decisions are taken by people acting within, and very often on behalf of, groups. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bono functions, market failure groups, mozzarella producers, pro bono groups, homo wconomicus, purse seine fishermen, operating canoes, health policy literature, pastoral operations, sheep units, pastoral households, coffee committees, buffalo ranchers, firewood shortages, societal equity, irrigation groups, homo ceconomicus, pastoral sector, pond fishery, marketing intermediaries, coffee sector, line fishermen, forestry groups, sex workers, effort regulation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coffee Federation, Latin America, Second World War, National Statistical Office of Mongolia, West Bengal, Putul Singh, South Asia, Bufala Campana, Catholic Church, Komal Gandhar, Asian Development Bank, Bayan Uul, East Asia, Fair Trade, First National Conference of Sex Workers, Grameen Bank, Mahila Sangha, Uma Mondal, Consorzio Mozzarella, Mala Singh, The Telegraph, Anima Banerjee, Bayan Tsagaan, Government Religious, Sadhana Mukherjee New!
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- Expanding the Measure of Wealth: Indicators of Environmentally Sustainable Development (Environmentally Sustainable Development Studies and Monographs Series) by World Bank in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Second World War, 1939-45 (Links: Twentieth Century World History Books series) by David Evans on page 126, and page 142
- World Development Report 1998/99: Knowledge for Development by World Bank in Back Matter
- The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy (World Bank Policy Research Report) by The World Bank in Back Matter
- Manchu Chinese: Colonial Rule in Northern Mongolia by M. Sanjdorj in Back Matter
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