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Economic development and the decline of rural and urban community-based networks/ created by Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Economics of transition ; Volume 13, number 3Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISSN:
  • 09670750
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC244 ECO
Online resources: Abstract: This paper studies how traditional networks in rural and urban India have responded to economic development. In rural areas, the impact of the Green Revolution on within-network inequality has resulted in defection by the wealthiest members of caste-based social insurance networks. In Bombay, the most able members of the caste-based labour market networks are exiting from the traditional occupations to participate in new occupations in which individual rather than group ability is rewarded. In both cases, the weakest members of the community are left in networks that now have lowered capacity to provide services.
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Journal Article Journal Article Main Library - Special Collections HC244 ECO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol. 13, no.3 (pages 427-444) SP47 Not for loan For in house use only

This paper studies how traditional networks in rural and urban India have responded to economic development. In rural areas, the impact of the Green Revolution on within-network inequality has resulted in defection by the wealthiest members of caste-based social insurance networks. In Bombay, the most able members of the caste-based labour market networks are exiting from the traditional occupations to participate in new occupations in which individual rather than group ability is rewarded. In both cases, the weakest members of the community are left in networks that now have lowered capacity to provide services.

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