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Author:   Judith Heyer (, Somerville College, University of Oxford) ,  Frances Stewart (, Director of International Development Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford) ,  Rosemary Thorp (, Queen Elizabeth House and Latin American Centre, University of Oxford) ,  Rosemary Thorpe
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.693kg
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9780199256914

ISBN 10:   0199256918
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   19 September 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Judith Heyer, J. Mohan Rao, Frances Stewart, and Rosemary Thorp: Group Behaviour and Development 2: Frances Stewart: Dynamic Interactions Between the Macro-environment, Development Thinking, and Group Behaviour 3: Sabina Alkire and Séverine Deneulin: Individual Motivation, its Nature, Determinants, and Consequences for Within-group Behaviour 4: Frederic Gaspart and Jean-Philippe Platteau: Collective Action for Local-Level Effort Regulation: An Assessment of Recent Experiences in Senegalese Small-Scale Fisheries 5: Tito Bianchi: Leaders and Intermediaries as Economic Development Agents in Producers' Associations 6: Larry Burmeister, Gustav Ranis, and Michael Wang: Group Behaviour and Development: A Comparison of Farmers' Organizations in South Korea and Taiwan 7: Rosemary Thorp: Has the Coffee Federation Become Redundant? Collective Action and the Market in Colombian Development 8: David Sneath: Producer Groups and the Decollectivization of the Mongolian Pastoral Economy 9: Bina Agarwal: The Hidden Side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South Asia 10: Simeen Mahmud: Information Women's Groups in Rural Bangladesh: Group Operation and Outcomes 11: Nandini Gooptu: Sex Workers in Calcutta and the Dynamics of Collective Action: Political Activism, Community Identity, and Group Behaviour 12: Maureen Mackintosh and Lucy Gilson: Non-market Relationships in Health Care 13: Paula Tibandebage and Maureen Mackintosh: Institutional Cultures and Regulatory Relationships in a Liberalizing Health Care System: A Tanzanian Case Study 14: Christy Cannon Lorgen: The Case of Indigenous NGOs in Uganda's Health Sector 15: Judith Heyer, Frances Stewart, and Rosemary Thorp: Conclusions

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... an exceptionally useful resource for practitioners and researchers interested in collective action issues. The Journal of Development Studies The timeliness of the volume can hardly be overstated ... The book's importance lies in its original choice of analytical framework, and its principal conclusions. The Journal of Development Studies

... an exceptionally useful resource for practitioners and researchers interested in collective action issues. The Journal of Development Studies The timeliness of the volume can hardly be overstated ... The book's importance lies in its original choice of analytical framework, and its principal conclusions. The Journal of Development Studies

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Judith Heyer has worked on different aspects of rural development in Kenya and in Tropical Africa. Her work on Kenya has included work on agricultural policy issues related to production and marketing, food policy, and poverty. She has also worked on villages in South India with a special interest in gender, caste, and class. She has been a Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Somerville, and University Lecturer at Oxford University since 1975. and before that lectured at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Frances Stewart is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the International Development Centre, University of Oxford and a fellow of Somerville College. Her major research interests concern the impact of development processes on poor people. She has worked on appropriate technology, basic needs and the impact of adjustment policies on poverty. Recent work has focussed on the economic and social causes and consequences of large scale violent conflict, as well as on group behaviour. Rosemary Thorp has been the Lecturer in the Economics of Latin America at the University of Oxford since 1971. Before that she taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research has been in the field of economic history of Latin America and the macro economic management problems of that continent. She has worked extensively on Peru, Chile, and Colombia.

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