State, Market and Civil Organizations New Theories, New Practices and Their Implications for Rural Development

About this book

As most developing countries emerge from the depth of the debt crisis, the context of the Cold War, and totalitarian or authoritarian forms of government, the development strategies that will take shape in the 1990s will impart significantly different roles to the market, the state, and civil organizations compared to the post development decades. Simultaneously, important advances have been made in development theory, particularly in institutional economics and political economy. This book takes stock of these changes in both theory and practice and explores implications for the redefinition of alternative styles of development.

Contents

State, market, and civil organizations - new theories, new practices, and their implication for rural development, Alan de Janvry et al; markets and state - against minimalism, Paul Streeten; political constraints on the development state - alternative theoretical explanations, Elisabeth Sadoulet; the rocky road to reform - trade, industrial, financial, and agricultural strategies, Lance Taylor; political economy of structural adjustment - a general equilibrium-interest group perspective, Terry Roe; impact of state and civil institutions on the operation of rural market and non-market configurations, Eric Thorbecke; grassroot organizations and NGOs in rural development - opportunities with diminishing states and expanding markets, Norman Uphoff; between state, markets and households - a neo-institutional analysis of local organizations and institutions, Jeffrey B. Nugent; analytics of the institution of informal cooperation in rural development, Pranab Bardhan; civil institutions and evolution, Kaushik Basu; the rural community, mutual assistance, and structural adjustment, Marcel Fafchamps; role of collateral in credit contracts, Clive Bell; land reform as commenced business - the evidence against stopping, Michael Lipton; institutions and economic linkages at the village level in West Java, Indonesia, Irma Adelman anf Katherine Ralston; political economy of economic decline and reform in Africa - the role of the state, markets and civil institutions, David Sahn and Alexander Sarris; market, state, and civil organizations in Latin America beyond the debt crisis - the context for rural development, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet; state-market-civil institutions - the case of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Republics, Gordon Rausser and Stanley Johnson.

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