Why poor people get rich: Kenya 1960–1979 |
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Authors: | Paul Collier Deepak Lal |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University, USA;The World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA |
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Abstract: | This paper challenges the conventional model underlying much thinking on Kenya which has stressed the extant inequality of assets (including human capital) and the presumed weakness of intersectoral links owing to structural rigidities in the system. On the basis of recent survey data, the authors test their hypothesis that the pattern of growth and distribution in the Kenyan smallholder sector is best understood rather as being the outcome of the complex interaction of rural factor market failure and urban labour market participation. The sources of growth may be distinguished as improved resource allocation, capital formation and innovation, so that the transmission mechanisms from factor market malfunctioning and urban employment onto growth and distribution must be via these three components. The arguments which follow question the orthodox views on such phenomena as urban bias, trickle-down growth, the functions of urban-rural remittances, and the need for land reform. |
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