Substituting for the state: Institutions and industrial development in eastern Nigeria

被引：54

作者：

Brautigam, D

机构：

[1] American University, Washington, DC

来源：

WORLD DEVELOPMENT | 1997年 / 25卷 / 07期

关键词：

industrial development; institutions; social capital; Taiwan; Nigeria; Africa;

D O I：

10.1016/S0305-750X(97)00016-8

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

This article examines the recent dynamic industrialization experience in one town, Nnewi, part of eastern Nigeria's ''industrial axis.'' The article suggests that insights from institutional economics can be used to help explain the case of dynamic industrialization in an unpromising economic environment. Nnewi industrialists have successfully filled the gaps left by failures of both the market and the state. In particular, by using both international linkages and alternative, culturally-based networks, they have reduced information uncertainties and principal-agent problems, lowering the transaction costs faced by other would-be industrialists in Nigeria. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.

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页码：1063 / 1080

页数：18