Abstract
The paper is based on a study of two groups of animal
raising tribes who own common-tribal rangeland resources along
the Suleiman mountain ranges of the Balochistan province of
Pakistan. The two groups share the same physical environment,
natural resource base, and animal farming technology, but differ in
their systems of property rights, and in resource use related aspects
of tribal, family, and religious institutions. The paper looks at the
impact of the two types of institutional arrangements on resource use
and productivity.
An analysis of institutions shows that while traditional institutions
provide incentives to limit resource use and avoid depletion, no such
constraining incentives exist under the changed institutional
environment. It is concluded that one way to alleviate the situation
would be to strengthen traditional resource use related institutions
where they have weakened and build structures that hold the
traditional concepts of cooperation where the same have
disintegrated.
Nek Buzdar. (2012) Institutional Change, Resource Use, and Economic Performance: A Study of the Pastoral Nomads of Balochistan, Hankén , Volume 4, Issue 1.
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