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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.
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