Institutions and Agrarian Development A New Approach to West Africa /

• Main Authors: Bulte, Erwin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Richards, Paul (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Voors, Maarten (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy,
• Subjects: Agricultural economics.; Development economics.; Africa-Economic conditions.; Economic growth.; Agricultural Economics.; Development Economics.; African Economics.; Economic Growth.

This book argues that development strategies have thus far failed in Western Africa because the many challenges afflicting the area have yet to be explored and understood from the perspective of institutional resources. With a particular focus on three countries on the bend of the Upper West African...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Not All Is Markets
• 3. Institutions on the Upper West African Forest Edge: A Fourfold Ordering
• 4. Customary West African Rural Factor Markets
• 5. Chiefs and Chieftaincy
• 6. Institutional Clash: Empirical Evidence from Case Studies
• 7. Agrarian Development in West Africa: Possibilities for Institutional Reform?
• 8. Conclusion.