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010			_a 2019-762298
020			_a 9783319985008
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039			_y 202307201250 _z 955
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082			_a 338.1 _2 23
092			_a 338.1 BUL
100			_a Bulte, Erwin, _e author.
245			_a Institutions and agrarian development : _b a new approach to West Af rica / _c by Erwin Bulte, Paul Richards, Maarten Voors.
250			_a 1st ed. 2018.
264			_a Cham : _b Springer International Publishing : _b Imprint: Palgrave M acmillan, _c 2018.
300			_a xvii, 178 pages: _b illustrations ; _c 21 cm.
490			_a Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy, _x 2662- 3889
504			_a Includes bibliographical references and index.
505			_a 1. Introduction -- 2. Not All Is Markets -- 3. Institutions on the U pper West African Forest Edge: A Fourfold Ordering -- 4. Customary West African Rural Factor Markets -- 5. Chiefs and Chieftaincy -- 6. Instit utional Clash: Empirical Evidence from Case Studies -- 7. Agrarian Deve lopment in West Africa: Possibilities for Institutional Reform? -- 8. C onclusion.
520			_a This book argues that development strategies have thus far failed in Western Africa because the many challenges afflicting the area have ye t to be explored and understood from the perspective of institutional r esources. With a particular focus on three countries on the bend of the Upper West African coast - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - this boo k offers a theory to account for the nature of these institutional elem ents, to test deductions against evidence, and finally to propose a res et for rural development policy to make fuller use of local institution al resources. Based on quantitative analysis and eight years of multidi sciplinary field research, this volume features several large-scale RCT s in the domain of rural development, local governance, and nature cons ervation. The authors address one of the biggest topics in agricultural and development economics today: the structural transformation of poor , agrarian economies, and they do so through the important and unique l ens of institutions.
588			_a Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
650			_a Agricultural economics.
650			_a Development economics.
650			_a Economic development.
651			_a Africa _x Economic conditions.
700			_a Richards, Paul, _e author.
700			_a Voors, Maarten, _e author.
830			_a Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy, _x 2662- 3889
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