Measuring the Social Costs of Rent-Seeking in Agriculture-Based Rural Development Projects in Developing Countries

Euan Fleming

No 156385, 1996 Conference (40th), February 11-16, 1996, Melbourne, Australia from Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society

Abstract: Identification and measurement of the social costs of rent-seeking (and associated rentdefending and rent-avoiding) in projects in developing countries have been neglected. This is in spite !1f a voluminous literature on the methodology and practice of project evaluation, an.i intense scrutiny of project activities by agencies responsible for their funding. The potential for social costs from rent-seeking in such projects is explored in this paper, with some illustrative ex,mples from agriculture"'based rural development projects. Other social costs indirectly resulting from rent-seeking activities are also described.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; International Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.156385

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