Lessons from the Southern Cone policy reforms. Land rights systems and agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The relevance for developing countries of recent developments in macroeconomic theory...
Many writers on collective action and common property are pessimistic about the ability of people who face problems with common property resources to organize sustainable patterns of use for themselves...
Can locally based collective action be a viable way to manage common property resources? Many writers on collective action and common property are sweepingly pessimistic about the ability of the people...
Taiwan has enjoyed the best performance, in terms of the double criterion of income growth and income equality, of any self-governing entity in the world over the past 25 years. Yet it has a financial...
The methods used to collect irrigation statistics in India give rise to very large margins of error. The unreliability of the data throws into question the utility of careful economic analyses of irrigation...
How do Indian villagers manage common property resources, such as canal irrigation water and grazing? The paper deals with the remarkable variation found between villages in one small area of South India...
The performance of canal irrigation systems depends, in part, on trust by farmers in the good faith and abilities of irrigation officials. In India, this trust is typically lacking; there is, instead...