Jean‐phiilippe Platteau

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Halting degradation of natural resources: is there a role for rural communities? (2000) (1798)
Institutions, Social Norms and Economic Development (2000) (867)
The Evolutionary Theory of Land Rights as Applied to Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Critical Assessment (1996) (779)
Land Tenure Security and Investment Incentives: Puzzling Evidence from Burkina Faso (2002) (657)
Land relations under unbearable stress: Rwanda caught in the Malthusian trap. (1998) (553)
Monitoring Elite Capture in Community‐Driven Development (2004) (532)
The Ambiguous Impact of Inequality on Local Resource Management (1999) (453)
Behind the market stage where real societies exist ‐ part I: The role of public and private order institutions (1994) (419)
Behind the market stage where real societies exist ‐ part II: The role of moral norms (1994) (413)
Participatory Development in the Presence of Endogenous Community Imperfections (2002) (348)
The Risk of Resource Misappropriation in Community-Driven Development (2003) (316)
Traditional systems of social security and hunger insurance: past achievements and modern challenges (1991) (312)
Halting degradation of natural resources (1995) (288)
Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action (2001) (269)
Mutual insurance as an elusive concept in traditional rural communities (1997) (246)
An inquiry into quasi‐credit contracts: The role of reciprocal credit and interlinked deals in small‐scale fishing communities (1987) (218)
Wealth inequality and efficiency in the Commons, part II: the regulated case (1997) (207)
Land Reform and Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Controversies and Guidelines (1992) (133)
Does Africa need land reform (2000) (130)
Using the Law to Change the Custom (2010) (127)
Division of the Commons: A Partial Assessment of the New Institutional Economics of Land Rights (1998) (124)
The Demand for Microinsurance: A Literature Review (2017) (118)
Religion, Politics, and Development: Lessons from the Lands of Islam (2008) (113)
Wealth Inequality and Efficiency in the Commons (1997) (106)
The Dynamics of Fisheries Development in Developing Countries: A General Overview (1989) (98)
Institutional Obstacles to African Economic Development: State, Ethnicity, and Custom (2009) (96)
Preparing for a responsible lockdown exit strategy (2020) (93)
Economics of Common Property Management Regimes (2003) (89)
Participatory Development: Where Culture Creeps In (2004) (87)
Physical infrastructure as a constraint on agricultural growth: The case of sub‐Saharan Africa (1996) (86)
Resource Endowments and Agricultural Development: Africa vs. Asia (1998) (83)
A framework for the analysis of evolving patron-client ties in agrarian economies (1994) (82)
The Food Crisis in Africa: A Comparative Structural Analysis (1988) (82)
Community arrangements to overcome market failure: pooling groups in Japanese fisheries (2001) (79)
Coordination problems in local-level resource management (1997) (70)
An Indian Model of Aristocratic Patronage (1995) (60)
Penetration of Capitalism and Persistence of Small‐scale Organizational Forms in Third World Fisheries (1989) (57)
Chapter 12 Solidarity Norms and Institutions in Village Societies: Static and Dynamic Considerations (2006) (57)
Political Instrumentalization of Islam and the Risk of Obscurantist Deadlock (2011) (55)
The Hard Challenge of Aid Coordination (2015) (55)
Formal Law as a Magnet to Reform Custom (2012) (53)
"Redistributive Pressures in Sub-Saharan Africa: Causes,Consequences, and Coping Strategies". In: Akyeampong, E., R. Bates, N. Nunn, and J. Robinson (Eds.), African Development in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press. (2012) (52)
Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint: where Do We Stand and Where Do We Go? (2008) (52)
CHAPTER 2. Collective Action on the Commons: The Role of Inequality (2007) (51)
Impartible Inheritance Versus Equal Division: a Comparative Perspective C entered on Europe and Subsaharan Africa (1998) (50)
Livestock Policy Analysis Brief no. 12. Participation in the construction of a local public good with indivisibilities: An application to watershed development in Ethiopia (1998) (48)
Traditional Sharing Norms as an Obstacle to Economic Growth in Tribal Societies (1996) (46)
Land tenure under unendurable stress: Rwanda caught in the malthusian trap (1996) (46)
Poverty, Tenure Security and Access to Land in Central Uganda: The Role of Market and Non-Market Processes (1999) (45)
The Gradual Erosion of the Social Security Function of Customary Land Tenure Arrangements in Lineage-Based Societies (2002) (45)
Religion, culture, and development (2014) (40)
Elite capture through information distortion: A theoretical essay (2013) (39)
Allocating and Enforcing Property Rights in Land: Informal versus Formal Mechanisms in Subsaharan Africa (2000) (38)
Islam Instrumentalized: Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective (2017) (37)
Community-Based Development in the Context of Within Group Heterogeneity (2003) (37)
The Effect of Land Scarcity on Farm Structure: Empirical Evidence from Mali (2013) (36)
Formalization and privatization of land rights in sub-Saharan Africa: a critique of current orthodoxies and structural adjustment programmes (1992) (35)
The Drive Towards Mechanization of SmallScale Fisheries in Kerala: A Study of the Transformation Process of Traditional Village Societies (1984) (34)
Culture, institutions, and development : new insights into an old debate (2010) (31)
Productive inefficiency in extended agricultural households: Evidence from Mali (2015) (31)
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective: Redistributive Pressures in Sub-Saharan Africa: Causes, Consequences, and Coping Strategies (2014) (30)
Strategic Behavior and Marriage Payments: Theory and Evidence from Senegal (2010) (29)
Heterogeneity and collective action for effort regulation: lessons from the senegalese small-scale fisheries (2002) (28)
The ‘ Elite Capture ’ Problem in Participatory Development (2003) (26)
Technology, Credit and Indebtedness in Marine Fishing: A Case Study of Three Fishing Villages in South Kerala (1985) (25)
Understanding and Information Failures: Lessons from a Health Microinsurance Program in India (2013) (25)
The millennium development goals: an assessment (2010) (25)
The perverse effects of high brideprices (2007) (25)
Religious co-option in autocracy: A theory inspired by history (2017) (23)
Heterogeneity, social esteem and feasibility of collective action (2007) (23)
Stripe Review of Social Sciences in the CGIAR (2009) (22)
Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint : Where do we stand and where do we need to go ? 1 (2008) (21)
Does aid availability affect effectiveness in reducing poverty (2017) (20)
Inheritance patterns in migration-prone communities of the Peruvian Highlands☆ (2010) (20)
Political repression in autocratic regimes (2017) (18)
Reforming land rights in sub-Saharan Africa (1995) (17)
Information Distortion, Elite Capture and Task Complexity in Decentralized Development (2009) (17)
Transformation of the family farm under rising land pressure: A theoretical essay (2015) (17)
A Proposal for Co-operative Relief of Debt in Africa (CORDA) (1991) (15)
The distributive impact of land markets in Central Uganda (2001) (14)
Legal reform in the presence of a living custom: An economic approach (2011) (14)
ARE ECONOMISTS CONCERNED WITH POWER (1993) (14)
Towards a Generalized Concept of Peripheral Politics. A Review of A. Janos, The Politics of Backwardness in Hungary — 1825–1945 (1986) (14)
New Institutional Economics: The Causes of Institutional Inefficiency: A Development Perspective (2008) (13)
On the Feasibility of Power and Status Ranking in Traditional Setups (2006) (13)
PARTICIPATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LOCAL PUBLIC GOOD: A CASE STUDY OF WATERSHED MANAGEMENT IN THE ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS (1998) (12)
Does Hiterogeneity Hinder Collective Action (1994) (12)
Experimental approaches in development and poverty alleviation (2020) (11)
Towards Gender Equity in Development (2018) (11)
The dilemma of participation with endogenous community imperfections (2000) (11)
Coordination and Pooling Arrangements in Japanese Coastal Fisheries. (1998) (10)
Strategic Interactions Between Modern Law and Custom (2014) (10)
Sub-Saharan Afraica as a Special Case: The Crucial Role of (Infra)Structural Constraints (1993) (10)
"Managing the Commons: The Role of Social Norms and Beliefs" (2008) (10)
The Handbook of Economic Development and Institutions (2020) (10)
Understanding and Information Failures in Insurance: Evidence from India (2013) (9)
Collective Action, Heterogeneous Loyalties, and Path Dependence: Micro-Evidence from Senegal (2004) (9)
Classical economics and agrarian reforms in underdeveloped areas: The radical views of the two mills (1983) (9)
Eradicating Women-Hurting Customs: What Role for Social Engineering? (2017) (9)
Eradicating Women-Hurting Customs (2018) (9)
Risk as Impediment to Privatization? The Role of Collective Fields in Extended Agricultural Households (2012) (8)
Collective Action for Local-Level Effort Regulation: An Assessment of Recent Experiences in Senegalese Small-Scale Fisheries (2001) (8)
Mutual Insurance as Problematic Concept in Traditional Risk-Prone Societies : Towards Resolving the Paradox (1994) (8)
Buy as You Need: Nutrition and Food Storage Imperfections (2017) (8)
Aid Effectiveness: Revisiting the Trade-Off between Needs and Governance (2017) (7)
Population Pressure and Management of Natural Resources: Income-Sharing and Labour Absorption in Small-Scale Fisheries (1996) (5)
Political Instrumentalization of Islam and Threat of an Obscurantist Deadlock (2009) (5)
Coordination Problems in Resource Conservation Programs (1994) (5)
WEALTH INEQUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN (1997) (5)
Optimal Management of Transfers: An Odd Paradox (2017) (4)
Access to Land and Land Policy Reforms, in de Janvry, A., G. Gordillo, J.P. Platteau, and E. Sadoulet (eds.), Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action, Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 1-26 (2001) (4)
Order, the rule of law and moral norms (2000) (4)
The Explosive Combination of Religious Decentralization and Autocracy (2017) (4)
Cognitive bias in insurance: Evidence from a health scheme in India (2021) (3)
THE EVOLUTIONIST THEORY OF INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND FISHING SECTOR (1990) (3)
Confronting Oppressive Custom: Reformism versus Radicalism (2010) (3)
CHAPTER 7. Heterogeneity and Collective Action for Effort Regulation: Lessons from Senegalese Small-Scale Fisheries (2007) (3)
The Dynamics of Family Systems: Lessons from Past and Present Times (2019) (2)
THE DYNAMICS OF FAMILY SYSTEMS: (2020) (2)
Aid allocation: The role of external discipline (2021) (2)
Elite Capture Through Information Distortion: Uniformly Distributed Signal (2009) (2)
Optimal Discipline in Donor-Recipient Relationships -Reframing the Aid Effectiveness Debate (2013) (2)
Are women emancipating? Evidence from marriage, divorce and remarriage in Rural Northern Burkina Faso☆ (2021) (2)
Co‐Management as a New Approach to Regulation of Common Property Resources (2000) (2)
Should a Poverty-Averse Donor Always Reward Better Governance? A Paradox of Aid Allocation (2020) (2)
Political Instrumentalisation of Islam, Persistent Autocracies, and Obscurantist Deadlock (2010) (2)
The Quran and the Sword: The Strategic Game between Autocratic Power, the Military and the Clerics (2020) (2)
Religious Seduction in Autocracy: A Theory Inspired by History (2016) (2)
High-level Round Table on Trade and Development: Directions for the Twenty-first Century (2000) (2)
Seduction of Religious Clerics and Violence in Autocratic Regimes - with special emphasis on Islam (2013) (2)
Is Cheap Aid Money for Participatory Development Desirable for the Poor (2007) (1)
The Economics of Religious Conversion in Sub-Saharan Africa (2019) (1)
WIDER Working Paper No . 2013 / 073 The hard challenge of aid co-ordination (2013) (1)
Conditions for Successful Collective Action: Insights from Field Experiences (2000) (1)
The Quran and the Sword (2023) (1)
Political Instrumentalization of Religion: The Case of Islam (2009) (1)
"The Causes of Institutional Inefficiency: A Development Perspective", in Brousseau, E., and Glachant, J-M. (Eds), 2008, New Institutional Economics -A Guidebook, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 443-462. (2008) (1)
Institutions, Property Rights and Development (2008) (1)
Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Towards a Definition of Sustainability (2000) (1)
CREDIT AS AN INSURANCE MECHANISM IN THE BACKWARD RURAL AREAS OF LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES / LE CREDIT COMME MECANISME D'ASSURANCE DANS LES ZONES RURALES SOUS-DEVELOPPES (2016) (1)
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONS: (2020) (1)
Food Market Liberalization Against Public Opinion: Some Bitter Lessons from the Physiocratic Experiment in Eighteenth-Century France (1995) (1)
TRANSFORMATION OF AFRICAN FARM HOUSEHOLDS: A SHORT SURVEY OF ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS (2017) (1)
Transformation of African Farm-Cum-Family Structures (2015) (1)
Community Ties & Land Inheritance in the Context of Rising Outside Opportunities: Evidence from the Peruvian Highlands (2005) (1)
The social conditions of the market: A rejoinder (1997) (1)
Some Concluding Reflections on the Privatization of Common Property Resources (2000) (0)
Risk as an impediment to privatization? The role of collective fields in patriarchal family farms (2011) (0)
ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES (2002) (0)
Book Review (2011) (0)
Moral Norms and Co‐Operation (2000) (0)
The Property Rights School Solution: The Privatization Programme (2000) (0)
Introduction to the special issue “Towards understanding changes in Women’s status: The economic approach at work” (2021) (0)
Should a Poverty-Averse Donor Always Increase the Share of Governance-Improving Countries? (2018) (0)
Land Inheritance and Migration: The Strategic Bequest Motive Put To Test (2007) (0)
Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and other Economic Institutions (1998) (0)
Enlightened Despotism Examined (2017) (0)
Islam, Politics, and the Challenge of Enforcement (2017) (0)
INTRA-FAMILY EXCLUSIONARY PROCESSES IN ACCESS TO LAND — With special reference to Europe and SubSaharan Africa (1998) (0)
Innovation Adoption and Liquidity Constraints in the Presence of Grassroots Extension Agents: Evidence from the Peruvian Highlands (2017) (0)
Entrenched Political Dynasties and Development under Competitive Clientelism: Evidence from Pakistan* (2021) (0)
THE EFFECT OF STRUCTURE: EMPIRICAL (2011) (0)
Strategic Interactions Between Religion and Politics: The Case of Islam (2019) (0)
Were People Traditionally Conservationists (2000) (0)
Risk Sharing in Nuclear and Extended Households (2018) (0)
econstor Make Your Publications Visible . A Service of zbw (2013) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Co‐Ordination and Leadership in the Unregulated Common Property: Some Lessons from Game Theory (2000) (0)
Revivalist Movements in Other Religions (2017) (0)
The Possibility of Co‐Operation: Lessons from Experimental Social Psychology (2000) (0)
Aid Efficiency and Decentralized Development (2003) (0)
Contextualization Is Not Antagonistic to Theorization (2012) (0)
Cognitive Bias in Insurance: Evidence from India (2017) (0)
Recent Changes Affecting Collective Action at Village Level (2000) (0)
No 2008 – 03 November Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint : Where do we stand and where do we need to go ? (2008) (0)
Insights from Early Modern Europe (2017) (0)
Islamism in Historical and International Perspective (2017) (0)
The Rise of Islam in Conditions of State Crisis: The Case of Weak States (2017) (0)
Information Distortion in Participatory Development Programs (2010) (0)
Fighting Harmful practices : the case of female genital cutting (2018) (0)
Conflation between Religion and Politics: The Case of Islam (2017) (0)
The Dominant System of Politico-Religious Relations in Islam (2017) (0)
Constraints to innovation in developing countries : evidence from the Peruvian highlands (2018) (0)
Common Property Resources (2008) (0)
CHAPTER Religion , Culture , and Development (2013) (0)
A New Approach To The Role Of Development Aid For Poverty Reduction Trading-Off Needs Against Governance (2015) (0)
The Regulated Common Property (2000) (0)
prepared for the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics , Paris , June 2000 COMMUNITY IMPERFECTIONS (2000) (0)
Malthus and underdevelopment or the problem of a theorys coherence (1984) (0)
Aid Effectiveness Revisited, Part 1: Optimal Discipline in Donor-Recipient Relationships (2015) (0)
Preparing for a responsible lockdown exit strategy (2020) (0)
The Triangular Game between Autocrats, Clerics, and the Military: An Application to Muslim Countries (2021) (0)
ELITE CAPTURE T DISTORTION: A JEAN- HROUGH INFORMATION THEORETICAL ESSAY (2011) (0)
ELITE CAPTURE T DISTORTION: UNIFORM (2011) (0)
The Benin Institutional Diagnostic, Forthcoming (2019) (0)
The Rise of Islam in Conditions of State Crisis: The Case of Kleptocratic Despotism (2017) (0)
Modern Law as a Magnet to Reform Custom (2012) (0)
The Tragedy of the Commons (2000) (0)
The Unregulated Common Property: The Prisoner's Dilemma Revisited (2000) (0)