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The Economics of rural organization : theory, practice, and policy

Title
The Economics of rural organization : theory, practice, and policy / edited by Karla Hoff, Avishay Braverman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Published for the World Bank [by] Oxford University Press, 1996, ©1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Hoff, Karla, 1953-
  • Braverman, Avishay, 1948-
  • Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Description
xiii, 590 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • Rural development > Developing countries
  • Rural credit > Developing countries
  • Agriculture > Economic aspects > Developing countries
  • Technological innovations > Developing countries
  • Land use, Rural > Developing countries
  • Development
Note
  • "A World Bank book"--Cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • 1. Introduction / Karla Hoff, Avishay Braverman and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- 2. Imperfect Information and Rural Credit Markets: Puzzles and Policy Perspectives / Karla Hoff and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- 3. Administrative Failures in Rural Credit Programs / Avishay Braverman and J. Luis Guasch -- 4. Peer Monitoring and Credit Markets / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- 5. Credit Markets in Northern Nigeria: Credit as Insurance in a Rural Economy / Christopher Udry -- 6. The Nascent Rural Credit Market in China / Gershon Feder, Lawrence J. Lau, Justin Y. Lin and Xiaopeng Luo -- 7. Imperfect Information, Screening, and the Costs of Informal Lending: A Study of a Rural Credit Market in Pakistan / Irfan Aleem -- 8. The Thai Rural Credit System and Elements of a Theory: Public Subsidies, Private Information, and Segmented Markets / Ammar Siamwalla, Chirmsak Pinthong, Nipon Poapongsakorn, Ploenpit Satsanguan, Prayong Nettayarak, Wanrak Mingmaneenakin and Yuavares Tubpun --
  • 9. Interactions between Institutional and Informal Credit Agencies in Rural India / Clive Bell -- 10. Cooperative Credit in Agriculture - The Israeli Experience / Yoav Kislev, Zvi Lerman and Pinhas Zusman -- 11. Designing Land Policies: An Overview / Karla Hoff -- 12. The Theory of Land Tenure and Property Rights / Gershon Feder and David Feeny -- 13. The Economics of Land and Titling in Thailand / Gershon Feder -- 14. Indigenous Land Rights Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Constraint on Productivity? / Shem Migot-Adholla, Peter B. Hazell, Benoit Blarel and Frank Place -- 15. Kasugpong in the Philippine Rice Bowl: The Emergence of New Labor Institutions after the Land Reform / Yujiro Hayami and Keijiro Otsuka -- 16. Path-Dependent Policy Reforms: From Land Reform to Rural Development in Colombia / Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet --
  • 17. Consequences of Limited Risk Markets and Imperfect Information for the Design of Taxes and Transfers: An Overview / Karla Hoff and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- 18. Land Taxes, Output Taxes, and Sharecropping: Was Henry George Right? / Karla Hoff -- 19. If Agricultural Land Taxation Is So Efficient, Why Is It So Rarely Used? / Jonathan Skinner -- 20. Targeting Taxes and Transfers: Administrative Costs and Policy Design in Developing Economies / Timothy Besley -- 21. Implications of Imperfect Risk Markets for Agricultural Taxation / David Newbery -- 22. How to Analyze the Brazilian Price Band Proposals / Avishay Braverman, Ravi Kanbur, Antonio Salazar P. Brandao, Jeffrey Hammer, Mauro de Rezende Lopes and Alexandra Tan -- 23. Poverty Alleviation through Regional Targeting: A Case Study for Indonesia / Martin Ravallion -- 24. Technological Change, Imperfect Markets, and Agricultural Extension: An Overview / Jock R. Anderson and Karla Hoff --
  • 25. Water Rights Doctrines and Technology Adoption / Farhed Shah, David Zilberman and Ujjayant Chakravorty -- 26. Scale Economies, Technological Change, and Diversification / Avinash Dixit -- 27. Markets and Contracts in African Pastoralism / John McIntire -- 28. Institutional Reform in India: The Case of Agricultural Extension / Gershon Feder and Roger Slade -- 29. Agricultural Change and Inequality in Palanpur, 1957-84 / Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern.
ISBN
0195211111 (pbk.)
LCCN
93018451
OCLC
ocm36253853
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries