Group Behaviour and Development Is the Market Destroying Cooperation?

by Heyer, Judith; Stewart, Frances; Thorp, Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9780199256914
• ISBN10: 0199256918
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This title includes the following features: Explores alternative modes of group behaviour; Eleven case studies including community forest organizations in South Asia, sex workers in Calcutta, and the Coffee Federation in Colombia; Argues that cooperative behaviour is essential for efficiencyas well as equity

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	xi
List of Figures	xv
List of Tables	xvi
Group Behaviour and Development	1	(22)
Judith Heyer
J. Mohan Rao
Frances Stewart
Rosemary Thorp
Dynamic Interactions Between the Macro-environment, Development Thinking, and Group Behaviour	23	(28)
Frances Stewart
Individual Motivation, its Nature, Determinants, and Consequences for Within-group Behaviour	51	(24)
Sabina Alkire
Severine Deneulin
Collective Action for Local-level Effort Regulation: An Assessment of Recent Experiences in Senegalese Small-scale Fisheries	75	(30)
Frederic Gaspart
Jean-Philippe Platteau
Leaders and Intermediaries as Economic Development Agents in Producers' Associations	105	(20)
Tito Bianchi
Group Behaviour and Development: A Comparison of Farmers' Organizations in South Korea and Taiwan	125	(20)
Larry Burmeister
Gustav Ranis
Michael Wang
Has the Coffee Federation become Redundant? Collective Action and the Market in Colombian Development	145	(16)
Rosemary Thorp
Producer Groups and the Decollectivization of the Mongolian Pastoral Economy	161	(24)
David Sneath
The Hidden Side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South Asia	185	(24)
Bina Agarwal
Informal Women's Groups in Rural Bangladesh: Operation and Outcomes	209	(18)
Simeen Mahmud
Sex Workers in Calcutta and the Dynamics of Collective Action: Political Activism, Community Identity, and Group Behaviour	227	(26)
Nandini Gooptu
Non-market Relationships in Health Care	253	(18)
Maureen Mackintosh
Lucy Gilson
Institutional Cultures and Regulatory Relationships in a Liberalizing Health Care System: A Tanzanian Case Study	271	(20)
Paula Tibandebage
Maureen Mackintosh
The Case of Indigenous NGOs in Uganda's Health Sector	291	(16)
Christy Cannon Lorgen
Conclusions	307	(20)
Judith Heyer
Frances Stewart
Rosemary Thorp
References	327	(30)
Index	357