Smallholder Cash Crop Production under Market Liberalisation: A New Institutional Economics Perspective
"Pro poor" economic growth is widely recognized as an important means for reducing poverty in developing countries. With the majority of the world’s poor living in rural areas, agricultural intensification, with higher land and labor productivity from increased integration in input and output markets, is one way to expand income and livelihood opportunities for rural people. This book uses a new institutional economics perspective to review the effects of market liberalization on service...
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"Pro poor" economic growth is widely recognized as an important means for reducing poverty in developing countries. With the majority of the world’s poor living in rural areas, agricultural intensification, with higher land and labor productivity from increased integration in input and output markets, is one way to expand income and livelihood opportunities for rural people. This book uses a new institutional economics perspective to review the effects of market liberalization on service provision to smallholder farmers. In many parts of the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, the private sector has failed to fill the gaps left by the collapse of state supported input and credit supply systems. Using case studies from Ghana, Tanzania and Pakistan, the book investigates the difficulties facing the private sector in supplying inputs and credit and the conditions required for sustainable private sector investment to the benefit of rural people. The analysis has important lessons for donor and government policy makers and for companies wishing to make commercial investments. It is invaluable for researchers, academics and development agencies concerned with rural and agricultural economics and development
ContributorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and Acronyms1A New Institutional Economics Perspective on Current Policy Debates12Cotton Production and Marketing in Northern Ghana: The Dynamics of Competition in a System of Interlocking Transactions563The Cashew Sector in Southern Tanzania: Overcoming Problems of Input Supply1134Cotton and Wheat Marketing and the Provision of Pre-harvest Services in Sindh Province, Pakistan1775Conclusions: New Institutional Economics, Policy Debates and the Research Agenda240References266Author Index275Subject Index277
