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. |
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| 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 |
Table of 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.