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The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
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This article is published in International Affairs.The article was published on 1977-07-01. It has received 183 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Subsistence economy & Moral economy.read more
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Risk Sharing Networks in Rural Philippines
Marcel Fafchamps,Susan Lund +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how rural Filipino households deal with income and expenditure shocks using original data on gifts and loans, and found that gifts and informal loans are partly motivated by consumption smoothing motives but do not serve to efficiently share risk.
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants, grants of or opportunities to purchase rainfall index insurance, or a combination of the two Demand for index insurance is strong and insurance leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture.
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Poverty and Violent Conflict: A Micro-Level Perspective on the Causes and Duration of Warfare:
TL;DR: In this paper, endogenous mechanisms linking processes of violent conflict and the economic well-being of individuals and households in combat areas provide valuable micro foundations for communities in conflict areas, and they are discussed in detail.
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Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains
TL;DR: In this article, the role of financialization in the contemporary food crisis and its impacts on the distribution of power and wealth within and along the generalized agro-food supply chain is examined.
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Reciprocity and the Welfare State
TL;DR: The authors explored the contribution of reciprocity and other non-selfish motives to the political viability of the modern welfare state and developed an alternative behavioral explanation for economic reasoning about sharing and insurance.