Shami, Mahvish 
ORCID: 0000-0001-6550-5120
(2012)
The impact of connectivity on market interlinkages: evidence from rural Punjab.
World Development, 40 (5).
pp. 999-1012.
ISSN 0305-750X
Abstract
Up to the 1980s it was generally accepted that many key issues in agrarian development could not be studied without an understanding of market interlinkages. Recently, however, this theory has lost its importance in development literature. Based on a household-level survey from rural Pakistan, this paper seeks to re-introduce the importance of interlinkages by illustrating their exploitative potential, particularly in unequal isolated villages where landlords are essentially monopolist/monopsonist. The solution proposed is to break isolation. Making use of an exogenous shock found in the construction of a motorway, the study finds that while connectivity does not break interlinkages completely, it does significantly reduce their exploitative nature.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-development... |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 Elsevier |
| Divisions: | International Development |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| JEL classification: | D - Microeconomics > D4 - Market Structure and Pricing > D40 - General G - Financial Economics > G0 - General |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2012 13:53 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/42990 |
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