Peasants and Governments: An Economic Analysis - Hardcover

Bevan, David; Collier, Paul; Gunning, Jan Willem

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019828621X ISBN 13: 9780198286219

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1990

Synopsis

This book is the first of two companion volumes by these authors on trade shocks in controlled economies. Both theoretically innovative and drawing on extensive applied work, it addresses a number of issues in the forefront of economics, principally the relationship between macro and micro economics, by analysing the impact of an external macro shock - the coffee price boom - on each of two developing countries which have much in common but whose governmental organizations and objectives differ sharply.

The authors focus on three important ways in which governments affect peasants: setting crop prices; controlling access to consumer goods; and provision of public services. They address these three areas using microeconomic analysis and household survey data collected in Kenya and Tanzania. Much of the analysis is relevant for a wide class of developing countries.

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Review

`their findings are both important and of general interest.'African Affairs

`an important study of the impact of state action on the rural poor ... The great strength of the book is its exceedingly careful treatment of data ... The research programme of the authors is extremely welcome. They offer a model for the careful use of data and the integration of institutional, theoretical, and statistical analyses.' The Economic Journal

`All in all this study is an impressive exercise in a priori deduction as well as in data gathering and in data analysis.' Journal of Peasant Studies

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019828621X
• ISBN 13: 9780198286219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 362