Market institutions in sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and evidence
Summarizes a decade of the author's empirical and theoretical work aimed at understanding market institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. Addresses issues of contract enforcement; trust and relationships; information sharing; networks and markets; and ethnicity and discrimination. Draws on a series...
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| description | Summarizes a decade of the author's empirical and theoretical work aimed at understanding market institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. Addresses issues of contract enforcement; trust and relationships; information sharing; networks and markets; and ethnicity and discrimination. Draws on a series of panel surveys of manufacturing firms in Burundi, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; complementary case studies of manufacturing and trading firms in Ghana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe; and surveys of agricultural traders in Benin, Madagascar, and Malawi. Considers policy implications. Fafchamps is Reader in the Department of Economics and Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford University. Bibliography; index. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ef1ff1bf-c270-4f03-b052-89c2160644e22022-03-27T11:38:02ZMarket institutions in sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and evidenceBookhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33uuid:ef1ff1bf-c270-4f03-b052-89c2160644e2EnglishDepartment of Economics - ePrintsMIT Press2004Fafchamps, MSummarizes a decade of the author's empirical and theoretical work aimed at understanding market institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. Addresses issues of contract enforcement; trust and relationships; information sharing; networks and markets; and ethnicity and discrimination. Draws on a series of panel surveys of manufacturing firms in Burundi, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; complementary case studies of manufacturing and trading firms in Ghana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe; and surveys of agricultural traders in Benin, Madagascar, and Malawi. Considers policy implications. Fafchamps is Reader in the Department of Economics and Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford University. Bibliography; index. |
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