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

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Imprint:New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, published for the World Bank, c1993.
Description:xiii, 590 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1441700
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Other authors / contributors:Hoff, Karla, 1953-
Braverman, Avishay, 1948-
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
ISBN:0195208889
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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505 2 0 |g 1.  |t Introduction /  |r Karla Hoff, Avishay Braverman and Joseph E. Stiglitz --  |g 2.  |t Imperfect Information and Rural Credit Markets: Puzzles and Policy Perspectives /  |r Karla Hoff and Joseph E. Stiglitz --  |g 3.  |t Administrative Failures in Rural Credit Programs /  |r Avishay Braverman and J. Luis Guasch --  |g 4.  |t Peer Monitoring and Credit Markets /  |r Joseph E. Stiglitz --  |g 5.  |t Credit Markets in Northern Nigeria: Credit as Insurance in a Rural Economy /  |r Christopher Udry --  |g 6.  |t The Nascent Rural Credit Market in China /  |r Gershon Feder, Lawrence J. Lau, Justin Y. Lin and Xiaopeng Luo --  |g 7.  |t Imperfect Information, Screening, and the Costs of Informal Lending: A Study of a Rural Credit Market in Pakistan /  |r Irfan Aleem --  |g 8.  |t The Thai Rural Credit System and Elements of a Theory: Public Subsidies, Private Information, and Segmented Markets /  |r Ammar Siamwalla, Chirmsak Pinthong, Nipon Poapongsakorn, Ploenpit Satsanguan, Prayong Nettayarak, Wanrak Mingmaneenakin and Yuavares Tubpun --  |g 9.  |t Interactions between Institutional and Informal Credit Agencies in Rural India /  |r Clive Bell --  |g 10.  |t Cooperative Credit in Agriculture - The Israeli Experience /  |r Yoav Kislev, Zvi Lerman and Pinhas Zusman --  |g 11.  |t Designing Land Policies: An Overview /  |r Karla Hoff --  |g 12.  |t The Theory of Land Tenure and Property Rights /  |r Gershon Feder and David Feeny --  |g 13.  |t The Economics of Land and Titling in Thailand /  |r Gershon Feder --  |g 14.  |t Indigenous Land Rights Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Constraint on Productivity? /  |r Shem Migot-Adholla, Peter B. Hazell, Benoit Blarel and Frank Place --  |g 15.  |t Kasugpong in the Philippine Rice Bowl: The Emergence of New Labor Institutions after the Land Reform /  |r Yujiro Hayami and Keijiro Otsuka --  |g 16.  |t Path-Dependent Policy Reforms: From Land Reform to Rural Development in Colombia /  |r Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet --  |g 17.  |t Consequences of Limited Risk Markets and Imperfect Information for the Design of Taxes and Transfers: An Overview /  |r Karla Hoff and Joseph E. Stiglitz --  |g 18.  |t Land Taxes, Output Taxes, and Sharecropping: Was Henry George Right? /  |r Karla Hoff --  |g 19.  |t If Agricultural Land Taxation Is So Efficient, Why Is It So Rarely Used? /  |r Jonathan Skinner --  |g 20.  |t Targeting Taxes and Transfers: Administrative Costs and Policy Design in Developing Economies /  |r Timothy Besley --  |g 21.  |t Implications of Imperfect Risk Markets for Agricultural Taxation /  |r David Newbery --  |g 22.  |t How to Analyze the Brazilian Price Band Proposals /  |r Avishay Braverman, Ravi Kanbur, Antonio Salazar P. Brandao, Jeffrey Hammer, Mauro de Rezende Lopes and Alexandra Tan --  |g 23.  |t Poverty Alleviation through Regional Targeting: A Case Study for Indonesia /  |r Martin Ravallion --  |g 24.  |t Technological Change, Imperfect Markets, and Agricultural Extension: An Overview /  |r Jock R. Anderson and Karla Hoff --  |g 25.  |t Water Rights Doctrines and Technology Adoption /  |r Farhed Shah, David Zilberman and Ujjayant Chakravorty --  |g 26.  |t Scale Economies, Technological Change, and Diversification /  |r Avinash Dixit --  |g 27.  |t Markets and Contracts in African Pastoralism /  |r John McIntire --  |g 28.  |t Institutional Reform in India: The Case of Agricultural Extension /  |r Gershon Feder and Roger Slade --  |g 29.  |t Agricultural Change and Inequality in Palanpur, 1957-84 /  |r Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern. 
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