Property Rights in a Flea Market Economy*

By Marcel Fafchamps, B. Minten. Economic development and cultural change, 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science

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Overcoming transaction costs barriers to market participation of smallholder farmers in the Northern Province of South Africa (2001, background): “32 result is that the market is not used for the transaction (ibid; Fafchamps and Minten, 2001).”
Networks, communities and markets in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for firm growth and investment (2001, background): “First of all, relationships are not in general tradable.21 Although contacts are an accumulable assets (see Fafchamps and Minten (1999b) for evidence), the absence of a market for individual contacts preclude that returns to contacts are arbitraged out.”
A framework to facilitate institutional arrangements for smallholder supply in developing countries: An agribusiness perspective (2007, background): “The results, therefore, do not contradict the conclusion that transaction costs are reduced by the presence of trust (Porter and Phillips-Howard, 1997; Akerlof, 1988; Dietrich, 1996; Gow et al., 2000; Fafchamps and Minten, 1999; Weatherspoon et al., 2001; Tregurtha and Vink, 1999; Dean, 2000) but ra”
Successes in African agriculture: Results of an expert survey (2004, background): “Interest in market institutions reflects the findings of recent work on market behavior in Africa which underlines the important role of institutions in promoting trust, protecting property rights, reducing transaction costs, and enabling exchange critical to market efficiency (Fafchamps and Minten,”
Spatial integration at multiple scales: rice markets in Madagascar (2009, unknown): “Fafchamps and Minten (2001) find that incidents of theft and contractual breach are low among”
Smallholder participation in contract farming: Comparative evidence from five countries (2012, background): “Second, a firm tends to favor informal contracts when it has strong pre-existing relationships with its suppliers, when nonrenewal of the contract provides adequate contract enforcement, and when it is too costly to resort to the formal legal system to enforce contracts (Fafchamps & Minten, 2001).”
Selling at the farm-gate or travelling to market (2004, background): “markets with poorly protected property rights –what Fafchamps and Minten (2001) have dubbed”
Smallholder commercialization: processes, determinants and impact (2009, background): “For instance, experiences from grain markets in Ethiopia (GabreMadhin 2001) and Madagascar (Fafchamps and Minten 2001) showed how the scope of spatial and temporal arbitrages in grain marketing is limited due to a weak legal system for contract enforcement and the demand for personal inspections for”