Official and parallel cereals markets in Senegal: Empirical evidence

Morris, Michael L.; Newman, Mark D.

doi:10.1016/0305-750x(89)90269-6

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“…Their share of total expenditures, however, is likely to remain small and the consumption effect on crop portfolio limited. _ ______________ 81 Situations where this may be the case are irrigated perimeters along the Niger, Gambia (e.g, Kargbo (1985)), or Senegal rivers (e.g., Morris and Newman (1989)). Whether reversals are actually observed deserves more research.…”

Section: Effect Of Consumption Preferences On Crop Choicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

Fafchamps¹

2003

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Section: Effect Of Consumption Preferences On Crop Choicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

Fafchamps¹

2003

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119

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“…3 The irony is that government interventions often have the effect of restricting competition and favoring politically connected individuals (e.g., Staatz, Dione and Dembele (1989), Morris and Newman (1989), Bevan, Collier and Gunning (1989)).…”

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confidence: 99%

Returns to social network capital among traders

Fafchamps¹

2002

Oxford Economic Papers

299

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Using data on agricultural traders in Madagascar, this paper shows that social network capital has a large effect on firm productivity. Better connected traders have significantly larger sales and value added than less connected traders after controlling for physical and human inputs as well as for entrepreneur characteristics. The analysis indicates that three dimensions of social network capital should be distinguished: relationships with other traders, which among other things help firms economize on transactions costs; relationships with potential lenders; and family relationships, which reduce efficiency, possibly because of the blurring of firm boundaries. We find no evidence that social capital favors collusion.

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“…Morris and Newman have established criteria with which to distinguish what they call 'the official market', characterized as 'trading by authorized (licensed) partners: compliance with official market regulations, conformity to official prices'. The 'parallel market' is characterized as 'trading by unauthorized (unlicensed) partners: non-compliance with official marketing regulations, trading at non-official prices' (Morris and Newman, 1989). What distinguishes the informal economy from the formal one is the absence of statistics and trade documents and a disregard for norms and regulations.…”

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‘Heart of Darkness’

Kabamba

2010

Anthropological Theory

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This article provides a critical overview of dominant images of Africa in general and of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in particular, in Western media as well as some scholarly literature. I then go on to show that these images are products of a very specific conception of the state and sovereignty. The study is primarily concerned with the nature of the African postcolonial state: is it failed or not? Is it absent or not? What role has it afforded new ethnic networks? Scholars of the state in Africa argue that it is ‘weak’ or has ‘failed’. When they do so they are drawing on the evidence of a real crisis prevalent in state structures in Africa today — however, as the study shows, they conflate the absence of government with the absence of governance. I argue that the state has not disappeared, but many of its traditional roles such as the provision of education, infrastructure, and security have been taken over by subordinate groups, mostly mobilized along ethnic lines.

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Official and parallel cereals markets in Senegal: Empirical evidence

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

Returns to social network capital among traders

‘Heart of Darkness’

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