Peasants and Governments: An Economic Analysis

by David Bevan, Paul Collier, Jan Willem Gunning, Arne Bigstein (With), Paul Horsnell (With)

Overview

The first of two companion volumes on trade shocks in controlled economies, the authors here address the relationship between micro and macroeconomics through analysis of an external macro shock—the coffee price boom—on two developing countries whose similarities end at the level of governmental organization and objectives. Using microeconomic analysis and household survey data, they focus on crop prices, access to consumer goods, and provision of public services in Kenya and Tanzania.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198286219
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/08/1990
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.02(d)

About the Author

St John's College, Oxford

St Antony's College, Oxford and University Lecturer, Oxford

Free University, Amsterdam

Editorial Reviews

"This impressive study investigates the impact on peasant farmers of external shocks in the form of volatile prices of coffee from 1975 to 1983....Recommended for upper-division and gradaute collections."—Choice

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