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This text applies concepts at the frontier of economic theory to international developments. It takes stock of changes in both economic theory and practice and explores implications for the redefinition of alternative styles of development.
List of contents
Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - State, Market, and Civil Organizations: New Theories, New Practices, and Their Implication for Rural Development; A.Janvry, E.Sadoulet & E.Thorbecke - Markets and State: Against Minimalism; P.Streeten - Political Constraints on the Development State: Alternative Theoretical Explanations; E.Sadoulet - The Rocky Road to Reform: Trade, Industrial, Financial, and Agricultural Strategies; L.Taylor - Political Economy of Structural Adjustment: A General Equilibrium-Interest Group Perspective; T.Roe - Impact of State and Civil Institutions on the Operation of Rural Market and Non-Market Configurations; E.Thorbecke - Grassroot Organizations and NGOs in Rural Development: Opportunities with Diminishing States and Expanding Markets; N.Uphoff - Between State, Markets and Households: A Neo-Institutional Analysis of Local Organizations and Institutions; J.B.Nugent - Analytics of the Institution of Informal Cooperation in Rural Development; P.Bardhan - Civil Institutions and Evolution; K.Basu - The Rural Community, Mutual Assistance, and Structural Adjustment; M.Fafchamps - Role of Collateral in Credit Contracts; C.Bell - Land Reform as Commenced Business: The Evidence Against Stopping; M.Lipton - Institutions and Economic Linkages at the Village Level in West Java, Indonesia; I.Adelman & K.Ralston - Political Economy of Economic Decline & Reform in Africa: The Role of the State, Markets & Civil Institutions; D.Sahn & A.Sarris - Market, State, and Civil Organizations in Latin America Beyond the Debt Crisis: The Context for Rural Development; A.de Janvry & E.Sadoulet - State-Market-Civil Institutions: The Case of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Republics; G.Rausser & S.Johnson - Index
