Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In the wake of economic and political liberalisation in Tanzania, this thesis seeks to understand market development in one of the poorest and little studied rural areas of the country.Research questions concern the emergence of market coordination and its relationship with other forms of social organisation such as kinship and religion.The research approach applies formal and interpretive analysis to interview, survey and observation data gathered during a 12 month period.Primary academic emphasis is on economic theories of market functioning and development, with a central role for individual decision making.However, the study also attempts a degree of interdisciplinary engagement with concerns such as culture and identity more typical of sociological or anthropological approaches.Theoretically, institutions are at the heart of the analysis, while concepts such as transaction cost and
Author: R. F. Grant
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W758777441