Institutions, Social Norms and Economic Development

By J. Platteau. 2000

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Spatial integration at multiple scales: rice markets in Madagascar (2009, neutral): “A longstanding literature documents both the institutional constraints to market development (see, for example, Platteau 2000; Fafchamps 2004) and the considerable commodity price variability across space and seasons in developing countries, with various empirical tests of market integration…”
A dangerous bet: The challenges of formalizing artisanal mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2012, background): “Empirical studies in developing countries have demonstrated that formal titling risks to reinforce inequalities (Platteau, 2000: 170) and benefit the rich and middle class, rather than the poor (Gilbert, 2002: 16).”
Social Capital, Human Capital and the Community Mechanism: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Economists (2009, background): “For the survival and development of rural people under emerging resource scarcity, it is vital for the community mechanism to redirect cooperation toward promoting natural resource conservation and capital accumulation (Ensminger, 1992; Platteau and Hayami, 1998; Platteau, 2000).”
Climate Risk, Cooperation and the Co-Evolution of Culture and Institutions (2017, neutral): “Indeed, examples of intercommunity exchange, and geographically diversified mutual insurance arrangements are well documented in the historical, anthropological and economic literature (Dean et al., 1985; Platteau, 2000; Halstead and O’Shea, 2004).”
The supply- and demand-side impacts of credit market information (2010, background): “2 See ‘The Economics of Privacy’, Posner (1981) for a more general treatment.”
Tribe or Nation?: Nation Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania (2004, background): “Village meetings are held for local elections, to discuss development projects, and to disseminate information from higher levels of government (for example, to promote HIV/AIDS awareness), and they serve as the focal point for local politics.”
Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices (2012, background): “1 Some of the seemingly puzzling evidence regarding intertemporal choices of the poor were first summarised by Theordore Schultz in his 1979 Nobel Prize lecture and more recently in Banerjee and Duflo (2011). 2 Thaler (1991), Ainslie (1992) and Loewenstein and Elster (1992) provide reviews.”
Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change (2003, background): “…response to the impacts of Hurricane Andrew to the networks of reciprocity and exchange in pastoralist economies, it has long been recognized that social capital is central to the lived experience of coping with risk (Zeigler, Brunn, and Johnson 1996; Cantor and Rayner 1994; Platteau 1994, 2000).”
My parents taught Me. Evidence on the family transmission of values (2015, positive): “According to the classification of Platteau (2000), horizontal values relate to generalized morality obtaining both within and between groups, whereas hierarchical values relate to limited morality, which implies intra-group norms of behaviour.”