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This volume contains a series of essays which aims to show how some of the tools of advanced economic theory can usefully contribute to an understanding of how institutions operate. In particular, such techniques can be applied to the study of institutions within poor agrarian economies.

Agriculture --- Economic aspects

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International trade --- Economic development --- Mathematical models --- 330.35 --- 339.5 --- -International trade --- -External trade --- Foreign commerce --- Foreign trade --- Global commerce --- Global trade --- Trade, International --- World trade --- Commerce --- International economic relations --- Non-traded goods --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Economische groei. Kwantitatieve toename. Technische vooruitgang --zie ook {338.09} --- Buitenlandse handel. Internationale handel. Ruilvoet --- Mathematical models. --- -Economische groei. Kwantitatieve toename. Technische vooruitgang --zie ook {338.09} --- 339.5 Buitenlandse handel. Internationale handel. Ruilvoet --- 330.35 Economische groei. Kwantitatieve toename. Technische vooruitgang --zie ook {338.09} --- -339.5 Buitenlandse handel. Internationale handel. Ruilvoet --- External trade --- Growth models (Economics) --- International trade - Mathematical models --- Economic development - Mathematical models

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"A development economist with roots in India and the United States offers a short but deep and ambitious account of the corrosive effects of economic and cultural insecurity on liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike. His diagnosis: the problem is not inequality or capitalism, but snowballing fear of material and cultural loss"--

Democracy --- Security (Psychology) --- Economic security --- Authoritarianism --- Politics and culture --- Fear --- Economic security. --- Authoritarianism. --- Politics and culture. --- Fear. --- Economic aspects.

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The theme of common environmental resources is explored from the dual perspectives of economics and anthropology, with a focus on developing countries. Contributed readings written by senior scholars in the fields of Economics, Anthropology, and Sociology Looks at the challenges of interdisciplinary work in the social sciences, illustrating the variation in approaches/methodology Focuses on economic security, ecological sustainability, identity formation, and participatory decision-making, particularly in the developing world

Commons --- Natural resources, Communal --- Communication in international relations --- Economic anthropology --- #SBIB:39A4 --- International relations --- Communal natural resources --- Community-owned natural resources --- Collective settlements --- Public lands --- Village communities --- Common lands --- Communal land --- Communal lands --- Land tenure --- Real property --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Law and legislation --- Developing countries --- Economic conditions --- Natural resources, Communal. --- Commons. --- Communication in international relations. --- Economic anthropology. --- Economic conditions. --- Commerce, Primitive --- Economics, Primitive --- Economics --- Ethnology

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Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in the authority of national governments over economic policy. The contributors to Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries examine this institutional transformation from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, offering detailed case studies of decentralization in eight countries: Bolivia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa, and Uganda.Some of these countries witnessed an unprecedented "big bang" shift toward comprehensive political and economic decentralization: Bolivia in 1995 and Indonesia after the fall of Suharto in 1998. Brazil and India decentralized in an uneven and more gradual manner. In some other countries (such as Pakistan), devolution represented an instrument for consolidation of power of a nondemocratic national government. In China, local governments were granted much economic but little political power. South Africa made the transition from the undemocratic decentralization of apartheid to decentralization under a democratic constitution. The studies provide a comparative perspective on the political and economic context within which decentralization took place, and how this shaped its design and possible impact.ContributorsOmar Azfar, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Pranab Bardhan, Shubham Chaudhuri, Ali Cheema, Jean-Paul Faguet, Bert Hofman, Kai Kaiser, Philip E. Keefer, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Justin Yifu Lin, Mingxing Liu, Jeffrey Livingston, Patrick Meagher, Dilip Mookherjee, Ambar Narayan, Adnan Qadir, Ran Tao, Tara Vishwanath, Martin Wittenberg

Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Comparative government. --- Comparative government --- Government - General --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - General --- Developing countries --- Politics and government. --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Local administration --- Township government --- Political science --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Public administration --- ECONOMICS/Political Economy --- ECONOMICS/Trade & Development