Group Behaviour and Development Is the Market Destroying Cooperation [Paperback]

Some groups function well, from the perspectives of equity, efficiency, and well-being, while others do not. This book explores why. It covers groups that perform three types of function: overcoming market failures (e.g. producer organizations); improving the position of their members (e.g. Trade Unions), and distributing resources to the less well-off (e.g. NGOs and the public sector). It contrasts three modes of group behaviour: power and control; cooperation; and the use of material incentives. It explores what determines modes of behaviour of groups, and the consequences for efficiency, equity, and well-being.

1. Introduction,Judith Heyer, J. Mohan Rao, Frances Stewart, and Rosemary Thorp
2. Dynamic Interactions Between the Macro-environment, Development Thinking, and Group Behaviour,Frances Stewart
3. Individual Motivation, its Nature, Determinants, and Consequences for Within Group Behaviour,Sabina Alkire and Severine Deneulin
4. Collective Action for Local-Level Effort Regulation: An Assessment of Recent Experiences in Senegalese Small-Scale Fisheries,Frederic Gaspart and Jean-Philippe Platteau
5. Leaders and Intermediaries as Economic Development Agents in Producers' Associations,Tito Bianchi
6. Group Behaviour and Development: A Comparison of Farmers' Organizations in South Korea and Taiwan,Larry Burmeister, Gustav Ranis, and Michael Wang
7. Has the Coffee Federation Become Redundant? Collective Action and the Market in Colombian Development,Rosemary Thorp
8. Producer Groups and the Decollectivization of the Mongolian Pastoral Economy,David Sneath
9. The Hidden Side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South Asia,Bina Agarwal
10. Information Women's Groups in Rural Bangladesh: Group Operation and Outcomes,Simeen Mahmud
11. Sex Workers in Calcutta and the Dynamics of Collective Action: Political Actl3,