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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199256926 ISBN 13: 9780199256921

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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:

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 * ... an exceptionally useful resource for practitioners and researchers interested in collective action issues. * The Journal of Development Studies *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0199256926
• ISBN 13: 9780199256921
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Heyer Judith