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Title: | Cheating by Grain Traders in Ethiopia |
Author: | Ellis, Gene |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | Northeast African Studies |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 27-32 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | grain trade cereals Economics and Trade History and Exploration Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43660072 |
Abstract: | In December of 1970, two studies of cheating by grain merchants were independently being conducted in the Asaella and Debre Zeit areas of Ethiopia. Cue was conducted by the Planning and Evaluation Section of the Chilaio Agricultural Development Unit (CADU) project; the other by the present author in the Debre Zeit market place. The results of the two studies shed light on the marketing and bargaining practices of grain merchants in those areas, on the extent of cheating on weights, on the role of cheating on weights, and facilitate an understanding of the difficulties which development projects in those areas later had in taking over the marketing services from the grain trading middlemen. Notes, tab. |