Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa—Theory and Evidence

By G. Frazer. 2005

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Quality control in nonstaple food markets: evidence from India (2008, background): “9These mechanisms are discussed in detail, for instance, in Fafchamps (1996) and Fafchamps (2004) and need not be debated here.”
Rural Institutions and Producer Organizations in Imperfect Markets: Experiences from Producer Marketing Groups in Semi-Arid Eastern Kenya.Socioeconomics and Policy Working Paper Series no. 23 (2006, result): “However, market liberalization – expected to facilitate the functioning and effectiveness of markets – have had mixed results (eg, Jayne and Jones 1997; Winter-Nelson and Temu 2002; Dorward and Kydd 2004; Fafchamps 2004).”
Impact of cooperatives on smallholders' commercialization behavior: evidence from Ethiopia (2008, background): “At the macro level, commercialization increases food security and, more generally, improves allocative efficiency (Fafchamps, 2005; Timmer, 1997).”
Risk Sharing Between Households (2011, background): “Since small entrepreneurs often delay payment to suppliers as a way of dealing with liquidity shortages, trade credit de facto plays a risk sharing role (Fafchamps 2004).”
The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands ∗ (2008, background): “Economists define the concept in a rather lax way, as an optimistic expectation regarding other agents behaviour (Fafchamps, 2004).”
Rural market imperfections and the role of institutions in collective action to improve markets for the poor (2008, result): “The results have, however, been mixed (Winter-Nelson and Temu, 2002; Dorward and Kydd, 2004; Fafchamps, 2004).”
Institutions: Rules or Equilibria? (2011, background): “military alliances, for example) (Fafchamps 2004; Jackson 2006). In general, it is not necessarily the case that the networks that emerge through such a process will be “efficient” from the point of view of society overall, because individuals choosing to build links do not take into account the ext”