This text focuses on group behaviour in developing countries. It includes studies of producer and community organizations, NGOs and some public sector groups. Some groups function well, from the perspectives of equity, efficiency and well-being, while others do not. This book explores why, examining modes of group behaviour and their consequences.

1. Group Behaviour and Development ; 2. Dynamic Interactions Between the Macro-environment, Development Thinking, and Group Behaviour ; 3. Individual Motivation, its Nature, Determinants, and Consequences for Within-group Behaviour ; 4. Collective Action for Local-Level Effort Regulation: An Assessment of Recent Experiences in Senegalese Small-Scale Fisheries ; 5. Leaders and Intermediaries as Economic Development Agents in Producers' Associations ; 6. Group Behaviour and Development: A Comparison of Farmers' Organizations in South Korea and Taiwan ; 7. Has the Coffee Federation Become Redundant? Collective Action and the Market in Colombian Development ; 8. Producer Groups and the Decollectivization of the Mongolian Pastoral Economy ; 9. The Hidden Side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South Asia ; 10. Information Women's Groups in Rural Bangladesh: Group Operation and Outcomes ; 11. Sex Workers in Calcutta and the Dynamics of Collective Action: Political Activism, Community Identity, and Group Behaviour ; 12. Non-market Relationships in Health Care ; 13. Institutional Cultures and Regulatory Relationships in a Liberalizing Health Care System: A Tanzanian Case Study ; 14. The Case of Indigenous NGOs in Uganda's Health Sector ; 15. Conclusions

Explores alternative modes of group behaviour, including power and control, cooperation, and monetary incentives Eleven case studies including community forest organizations in South Asia, sex workers in Calcutta, and the Coffee Federation in Colombia Argues that cooperative behaviour is essential for efficiency as well as equity

Judith Heyer has worked on different aspects of rural development in Kenya and in Tropical Africa. Her work on Kenya has included work on agricultural policy issues related to production and marketing, food policy, and poverty. She has also worked on villages in South India with a special interest in gender, caste, and class. She has been a Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Somerville, and University Lecturer at Oxford University since 1975. and before that lectured at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Frances Stewart is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the International Development Centre, University of Oxford and a fellow of Somerville College. Her major research interests concern the impact of development processes on poor people. She has worked on appropriate technology, basic needs and the impact of adjustment policies on poverty. Recent work has focussed on the economic and social causes and consequences of large scale violent conflict, as well as on group behaviour. Rosemary Thorp has been the Lecturer in the Economics of Latin America at the University of Oxford since 1971. Before that she taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research has been in the field of economic history of Latin America and the macro economic management problems of that continent. She has worked extensively on Peru, Chile, and Colombia.

Explores alternative modes of group behaviour, including power and control, cooperation, and monetary incentives Eleven case studies including community forest organizations in South Asia, sex workers in Calcutta, and the Coffee Federation in Colombia Argues that cooperative behaviour is essential for efficiency as well as equity