| Tekijä: | Collier, P. |
| Otsikko: | Contractual constraints on labour exchange in rural Kenya. |
| Lehti: | International Labour Review
1989 : VOL. 128:6, p. 745-768 |
| Asiasana: | AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY KENYA LABOUR MARKETS CONTRACTS |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | Since independence the Kenyan economy hat witnessed rapid commercialization of both the commodity and labour markets (as well as the privatization of land). Although there has been much discussion of this process, its impact on the efficiency of resource allocation in peasant agriculture has hitherto been neglected. It is argued that efficiency has not been achieved mainly because contractual constraints have prevented market transactions from having the corrective effects predicted by economic theory. It is concluded that absentee land ownership lies at the root of much of this malfunctioning and that a redistribution of land entitlements - rather than the promotion of tenancy - is required to reduce poverty and increase national output. |
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