Field Experience in Developing Countries

By: Harriss -. White B.

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Hardcover | 29 January 1999 | Edition Number 3

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In an era of globalisation, private markets are expected to dominate the distribution of goods worldwide. Yet surprisingly little empirical work has been conducted on them. The sensitive and secret nature of trading information, the complexity of real markets and the lack of official data other than that on price are all problematic. This book seeks to overcome these by examining arguably the most difficult markets of all - agricultural markets under conditions of underdevelopment. Case-studies from several countries covering all three underdeveloped continents offer a comprehensive overview of the lessons to be learnt from field experience.

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'The book explores real rural lives and economies beyond the usual reductions of economists. It is both steadfastly empirical and substantively analytical in exploring the impact of markets in developing rural economies.' - Teodor Shanin, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester and Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

'This is a most unusual book for the empirical study of marketing systems in that it consistently emphasises the importance of the institutions through which market transactions are conducted. The book is a must for all those who are interested in the study of real markets, either for reasons of methodology or for policy purposes. The book contains a wealth of information for the fieldwork study of food marketing systems in developing countries, and will prove an invaluable reference work for social Scientists conducting work in this area.' - Frank Ellis, Professor of Development Studies, University of East Anglia

'The book is a must for both inexperienced and experienced researchers who want to do fieldwork in other cultures - in order to avoid learning these lessons from their own mistakes. The many potential pitfalls of collecting information on exchange processes and the functioning of markets usually belong to the 'hidden' part of research projects - with very few details in the final publication. This book is refreshingly honest in discussing the problems field researchers often encounter. It also demonstrates the consequences when theory as point of departure for research is absent or wrongly used.' - Aad van Tilburg, Associate Professor of Agricultural Marketing, Wageningen Agricultural University

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Agriculture & Farming Econometrics

List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Visible Hands	p. 1
Exchange	p. 39
Village-Level Exchange: Lessons from South India	p. 40
Social Stratification and Exchange in West African Conditions: A Participatory Approach to the Classification of Producers and Net Consumers of Marketed Surplus	p. 87
Markets as Systems	p. 95
The Post-Harvest System in Indonesia	p. 96
Researching the Market System in Bangladesh	p. 115
Methods for Tracing Rapid Market Change: Urban Grain Supply Networks in Tanzania	p. 151
Price Performance and Market Efficiency	p. 169
Unstandardised Measures and the Analysis of Price Efficiency: An Application in Benin	p. 171
The Use of Hedonic Price Analysis in Agricultural Research: Market Prices and the Quality Characteristics of Beans in Colombia	p. 180
Large Data Bases: The Nineteenth-Century English Corn Returns - 'Not worth the paper that they are written on'?	p. 191
The Analysis of Integration: New Methodologies for Domestic Commodity Markets	p. 218
Testing Market Integration: Some Critical Comments	p. 244
Markets and Institutions; Markets as Institutions	p. 259
Power in Peasant Markets	p. 261
Gender, Markets and Fieldwork in Developing Countries; with Special Reference to West Africa	p. 287
The Relevance of Religion and Culture to Commercial Accumulation: Fieldwork on Muslim Hausa Exchange and Agricultural Trade in Northern Nigeria	p. 305
The Black Box of the State: Studying State Interventions in Food Markets	p. 323
Epilogue: Best and Worst Practice, Surprises and Lessons	p. 348
Index of Names	p. 355
Index of Subjects	p. 359
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Field Experience in Developing Countries