The participatory or decentralised approach to development is now favoured by most bilateral and multilateral aid organisations. At the root of this approach lies the belief that rural communities can be an effective channel of development if they receive a genuine delegation of powers and...

Dans cette etude, nous nous attacherons au probleme de l'Inde, detentrice du triste record du nombre d'enfants au travail. Ce sujet tres vaste a deja ete etudie par un grand nombre d'auteurs mais rares sont ceux qui se sont specifiquement attaches a la source du probleme, c'est-a-dire aux...

Asset trading resolves coordination problems in most currently existing models of coordination failure. We argue that a principal limitation of these models is their ignoring idiosyncratic and aggregate uncertainty in investment returns. We introduce such uncertainty in a standard model of...

The purpose of this paper is to understand the rationale and to assess the viability of pooling mechanisms in the specific context of a common property resource, a coastal fishery in Japan. The authors also want to probe into the reasons why some groups (in fact, a minority) opt for pooling...

This paper aims to examine the sources of agricultural stagnation/deterioration in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by contrasting it with the agricultural growth experience in East Asia.

We model the choices of a monopolist who faces a partially uninformed population of consumers. She aims at expanding demand by exploiting his (limited) knowledge about consumers’ social network. She offers rewards to current clients in order to induce them to activate their social network and...