What is it about?
This paper is about measuring of interdependency among households through their transactions by using information of individual villagers in a disadvantaged area in a developing country. The information of buying and selling among villagers can be indicators to measure a degree of dependency each other, and can show a kind of social network.
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Why is it important?
This paper is maybe the first trial to show the degree of human network, which is based on qualitative field survey data converted from a village input-output framework. In developing countries, there is few statistical data usually. This paper shows an application of field survey data about transactions in the village as an input-output framework, and the effectiveness of grabbing their relationship as quantitative indicators .
Perspectives
I hope the input-output framework might lead to new direction of the application in economic development field. Transaction information from field surveys can be used to capture human relationship. Also, this kind of research can be useful to detect causes poverty situation in rural/isolated areas in developing countries. This must be significant for policymakers to plan economic policies.
Masaru Ichihashi
Hiroshima Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Measurement of reciprocity in a village through social networks, Economic Systems Research, May 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09535314.2018.1467882.
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