Methods for Tracing Rapid Market Change: Urban Grain Supply Networks in Tanzania

Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Chapter 6 in Agricultural Markets from Theory to Practice, 1999, pp 151-166 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Underlying the current tidal wave of market liberalisation in the Second and Third Worlds is a belief in the ubiquity of entrepreneurial behaviour. Does a market in staple foodstuffs automatically blossom when state controls are removed? It is argued here that, in Tanzania, rather than having any spontaneous generation of entrepreneurial behaviour, Tanzanian grain markets are coalescing as physical impediments, and cultural, social and political institutions give way.

Keywords: Household Food; Entrepreneurial Behaviour; Market Liberalisation; Marketing System; Household Budget Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27273-0_6

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