The Harambee movement and efficient public good provision in Kenya

Wilson, Leonard S.

doi:10.1016/0047-2727(92)90039-i

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“…Local politicians and other leaders, however, have traditionally been expected not only to show extra largesse, but also to seek additional resources from the state. This was easier when projects aligned with the state's own development objectives (Wilson, 1992).…”

Section: Development and Its Legacies In Kenyamentioning

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Alternative food in the global south: Reflections on a direct marketing initiative in Kenya

Freidberg

Goldstein

2011

Journal of Rural Studies

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Alternative food in the global south: Reflections on a direct marketing initiative in Kenya

Freidberg

Goldstein

2011

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Private harambees generally raise funds from family and friends for funerals and weddings, college fees, and medical bills. Public harambees collect financial resources for development projects of common interest such as schools, health centres and water projects(Wilson, 1992).…”

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Violence, trust, and trustworthiness: evidence from a Nairobi slum

Becchetti

Conzo

Romeo

2013

Oxford Economic Papers

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We test with a field experiment in a Nairobi slum whether violence suffered during the 2007 political outbreaks affects trustworthiness when interethnicity becomes salient and participants face opportunism in common pool resource games (CPRGs) between two subsequent trust games (TGs). Our findings do not contradict previous one-shot results but qualify and extend them to a multiperiod setting enriching our understanding on the effects of violence on social preferences. More specifically, victimized exhibit higher trustworthiness in the first trust game but also a significantly stronger trustworthiness reduction after experiencing opportunism and interethnicity in the CPRG game.

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“…As we have discussed, good candidates may include the cases of voluntary environmental restoration and those of in-kind contributions to development projects. In these cases, several studies identify successful cases of voluntary provisions and attribute the success to cooperative behavior of contributors (e.g., Kikuchi et al 1978, Wilson 1992. While this may be so, it might also be enlightening to see these cases from a different perspective.…”

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“…Similar examples would be found in the private contributions of materials to communal infrastructure projects in developing countries. Such cases include the irrigation projects in the Philippines (Kikuchi et al 1978) and the Harambee movement in Kenya (Wilson 1992). …”

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Increasing marginal costs and satiation in the private provision of public goods: group size and optimality revisited

Hayashi

Ohta

2007

Int Tax Public Finance

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It is widely recognized that the degree of inefficiency in the voluntary provision of a public good increases with the group size of an economy. However, we find that only a slight modification in the conventional assumptions gives rise to a profound difference in outcome. In particular, we show that there is a case where the Nash equilibrium provision and the efficient provision will converge as the size of an economy grows. To show this we assume individuals face increasing marginal cost of voluntary provision and their preference function has a finite satiety point.

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The Harambee movement and efficient public good provision in Kenya

Cited by 19 publications

References 14 publications

Alternative food in the global south: Reflections on a direct marketing initiative in Kenya

Alternative food in the global south: Reflections on a direct marketing initiative in Kenya

Violence, trust, and trustworthiness: evidence from a Nairobi slum

Increasing marginal costs and satiation in the private provision of public goods: group size and optimality revisited

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