Finding the middle path
Subtitle: the political economy of cooperation in rural India
By: B.S. Baviskar and Donald W. Attwood ; with D.P. Apte ... [et al.].
Contributors: Attwood, Donald W.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Cooperative societies -- India.; India -- Economic conditions -- 1947-  -- Regional disparities.
Description: This book, a collaboration between Indian and Western researchers, is the first using a comparative framework to explain the striking regional differences in perfomance by cooperatives in rural India. Demonstrating how institutional performance can be evaluated in developing countries, this analysis points toward general principles of organizational effectiveness, revealing the potentials and limitations of cooperatives as instruments of rural development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-421) and index.