State, market and civil organizations : new theories, new practices and their implications for rural development / edited by Alain de Janvry...[et al]

As most developing countries emerge from the depth of the debt crisis, the context of the Cold War, and totalitarian or authoritarian forms of government, the development strategies that take shape in the 1990s will impart significantly different roles from the market, the state and civil organizations compared with the past develop ment decades. Simultaneously, important advances have been made in development theory, particularly in institutional economics and political economy.

This book takes stock of these changes in both theory and practice and explores implications for the redefinition of alternative styles of development in particular regions of the world. The emerging role of the state is analysed by Paul Streeten, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Lance Taylor and Terry Roe. The functioning of alternative market configurations is analysed by Erik Thorbecke. The role of civil institutions is analysed by Norman Uphoff, Jeffrey Nugent, Pranab Bardhan. Kaushik Basu, Marcel Fafchamps, Clive Bell. Michael Lipton, and Irma Adelman and Katherine Ralston. Finally, the implications of the emerging balance between state, market and civil organizations is applied to the specific contexts of Africa by David E. Sahn and Alexander Sarris. Latin America by Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics by Gordon Rausser and Stanley Johnson.