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    Policy research and African agriculture: time for a dose of reality?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2004
    This paper argues that, for the rural poor in Africa, market failure is more the norm than the exception. Despite the growing attention given to market imperfections of the kind highlighted by New Institutional Economics, much policy advice on the agricultural economy in African countries remains based on unrealistic analysis and assumptions.