Making use of a repeated distribution game experiment, we investigate how African peasants distribute and enforce water access in irrigation schemes. Two questions are addressed. First, we investigate the influence of scarcity by comparing a treatment with abundant water availability with a treatment where water is insufficient for both players to reach a minimum production threshold. Second, w...

This paper investigates the impact of road tolling in rural China. The country's lack of capital for transport development has made tolls a common place. Toll roads have been established in both urban and rural areas. Examining the interactions between peasants and rural markets in a county in Guangdong province, this study demonstrated road tolling has restricted people's choice of market venu...

Tiring of the touts and tourists in Kathmandu, I decided to travel to Pokhara to see the sun rise over Annapurna. In order to experience the rural way of life of the Nepalese, I scorned the comfortable tourist-bus in favour of the service-bus used by the peasants. At ?1.30 for a journey of 130 miles it seemed a bargain? but subsequent experience proved otherwise. Kathmandu bus-station is a mech...