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Group Behaviour and Development
Is the Market Destroying Cooperation?
Edited by Judith Heyer, Frances Stewart, and Rosemary Thorp
384 pages
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numerous tables and figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-925692-1
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Paperback
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19 September 2002
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- Explores alternative modes of group behaviour, including power and control, cooperation, and monetary incentives
- Eleven case studies including community forest organizations in South Asia, sex workers in Calcutta, and the Coffee Federation in Colombia
- Argues that cooperative behaviour is essential for efficiency as well as equity
This book focuses on group behaviour in developing countries. It includes studies of producer and community organizations, NGOs, and some public sector groups.
Despite the fact that most economic decisions are taken by people acting within groups -- families, firms, neighbourhood or community associations, and networks of producers -- the analysis of group functioning has not received enough attention, particularly among economists.
Some groups function well, from the perspectives of equity, efficiency, and well-being, while others do not. This book explores why. It covers groups that
perform three types of function: overcoming market failures (e.g. producer organizations); improving the position of their members (e.g. Trade Unions), and distributing resources to the less well-off (e.g. NGOs and the public sector). It contrasts three modes of group behaviour: power and control; cooperation; and the use of material incentives. It explores what determines modes of behaviour of groups, and the consequences for efficiency, equity, and well-being.
The book includes eleven case studies by different authors, including producers' associations in Brazil, farmers' organizations in Korea and Taiwan, community forestry groups in South Asia, organizations of sex-workers in Calcutta, and health NGOs in Uganda. Claims groups tended to be the most cooperative,
cooperation fostering empowerment and self-esteem. Distributive or pro bono groups mostly operated according to power and control, while market failure groups often combined all three modes.
The studies show the strong impact of norms in society as a whole on group behaviour. The recent shift towards a stronger role for market incentives has exerted powerful pressures on groups to use more material incentives, undermining the cooperation essential to sustain efficiency and equity. The universal presumption in favour of monetary incentives needs to be abandoned. Non-market behaviour needs to be valued and protected as well.
Readership: Academics and graduate students in economics
and development studies; members of NGOs and international development agencies
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Edited by Judith Heyer, Somerville College, University of Oxford, Frances Stewart, Director of International Development Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, and Rosemary Thorp, Queen Elizabeth House and Latin American Centre, University of Oxford Contributors:
Bina Agarwal (University of Delhi)
Sabina Alkire (University of Cambridge)
Tito Bianchi (MIT)
Larry Burmeister (University of Kentucky)
Christy Cannon Lorgen (risk mitigation consultant, Kroll Associates)
Severine Deneulin (Doctoral student, University of Oxford)
Frederic Gaspart (University of Namur, Belgium)
Lucy Gilson (health economist)
Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
Judith Heyer (University of Oxford)
Maureen Mackintosh (Open University)
Simeen Mahmud (Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies)
Jean-Philippe Platteau (University of Namur, Belgium)
Gustav Ranis (Yale University)
J. Mohan Rao (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
David Sneath (Cambridge University)
Frances Stewart (University of Oxford)
Rosemary Thorp (University of Oxford)
Paula Tibandebage (Economic and Social Research Foundation)
Michael Wang (Formerly of University of Oxford and Yale University)
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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
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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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