Journal of International Affairs articles from September 1998

Journal of International Affairs archives from September 1998

Beyond the Six Veils: Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty.(Review)
September 22, 1998... In this age of progress and economic transformation, a disturbingly vast number of the world's population remain steeped in poverty: The World Bank estimates that the number of the poor, defined as those who live on less than U.S.$1 a day, will...

Poverty and Reforms: Friends or Foes?
September 22, 1998... As reforms in economic policy--generally centered on dismantling inward-looking policies on international trade and attracting equity investment--and the privatization of many public-owned enterprises have swept across the developing world,...

Poverty Alleviation: Is Economics Any Help? Lessons from the Grameen Bank Experience.
September 22, 1998... Monsoons, floods, cyclones and tornadoes are natural disasters that, throughout history have consistently been linked to life and death in Bangladesh. Is there something wrong with Bangladesh? It appears to be a country existing only to shuttle...

Women and Poverty or Gender and Well-Being?
September 22, 1998... This article addresses two connected elements of the current consensus on women and poverty: One is the view, in poverty discourses, that women are "the poorest of the poor," and the other is the view, in gender and development (GAD)...

The Politics of Marginalization: Poverty and the Rights of the Indigenous People in Mexico.
September 22, 1998... Interviewed on 13 June 1998 by Alina Rocha Menocal for the Journal of International Affairs The Journal spoke with Bishop Samuel Ruiz on 13 June 1998, a week after he resigned as president of the Comision Nacional de Intervencion...

The Cow and the Thing Called "What": Dinka Cultural Perspectives on Wealth and Poverty.
September 22, 1998... God asked man, "Which one shall I give you, Black Man; there is the Cow and the thing called `What,' which of the two would you like?" The man said, "I do not want `What.'" God said, "But `What' is better than the Cow!" The man said, "No."...

Poverty, Children and Transition in Kyrgyzstan: Some Reflections from the Field.
September 22, 1998... Compared with other Central Asian countries, Kyrgyzstan, from an early stage, seemed to embrace most openly the recommendations of multilateral institutions to liberalize its economy, promote privatization and move from a planned to a market...

Is Growth Central to Poverty Alleviation in India?
September 22, 1998... A 1997 World Bank Study has rekindled the debate on whether economic growth is central to poverty alleviation in India. Invoking the main findings of a research project based on household surveys over a 40-year period, the study, India:...

Property Rights for the Rural Poor: The Challenge of Landlessness.
September 22, 1998... The debate around the relative roles of markets versus bureaucrats took on renewed life with the end of the Cold War. The public policy debate shifted from focusing on the public sector to emphasizing markets and their ability to innovate,...

A Cloth Untrue: The Evolution of Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa.
September 22, 1998... On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue And elliptical billiard balls. -Gilbert and Sullivan, The Yeoman of the Guard, 1888 Since 1981, structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa has moved from a vehemently contested set of proposals to a...

Poverty and Population Issues: Clarifying the Connections.
September 22, 1998... Slums and shantytowns crowded with children, large families in desperate circumstances--these typical media images from the developing world reinforce the popular belief that poverty and population growth are linked in a direct and obvious way....

Reducing Absolute Poverty in China: Current Status and Issues.
September 22, 1998... Since 1978, it is estimated that more than 200 million Chinese have escaped absolute poverty, as a result of Chinese government initiatives, bringing the share of China's total population living in absolute poverty to less than 10 percent,(1)...

Poverty: A Denial of Human Rights.
September 22, 1998... Development cooperation is in crisis in the true medical sense: its condition will either improve towards recovery or slide into terminal disease. During 1996, official development assistance (ODA) from Organization for Economic Cooperation and...

Global Poverty in the Late 20th Century.
September 22, 1998... THE GLOBALIZATION OF POVERTY The late 20th century will go down in world history as a period of global impoverishment marked by the collapse of productive systems in the developing world, the demise of national institutions and the...

Responding to Poverty in Uganda: Structures, Policies and Prospects(*).
September 22, 1998... Against nature man can claim no right, but once society is established poverty immediately takes the form of a wrong done to one class by another. The important question of how poverty is to be abolished is one of the most disturbing problems...

New Strategies for Microenterprise Development: Innovation, Integration, and the Trickle Up Approach.
September 22, 1998... In the last few years, microenterprise development has become one of the most diverse and dynamic approaches to poverty alleviation, with literally hundreds of programs implemented by a wide range of institutions across the globe. Within the...

The Feminization of Poverty: Unemployment in Russia.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The current economic and political conditions in Russia have had a particularily detrimental effect on women, causing them to become the poorest of the poor. Women have increasingly become unable to secure stable employment, even as they...

The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation Douglas A. Chalmers, Carlos M. Vilas, Katherine Hire, Scott B. Martin, Kerianne Piester and Monique Segarra, eds. (New York: Oxford University...

Reframing International Development: Globalism, Postmodernity, and Difference.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Reframing International Development: Globalism, Postmodernity, and Difference Nelson W. Keith (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997) 313 pp. Nelson W. Keith's Reframing International Development: Globalism, Postmodernity, and...

The World Food Outlook.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The World Food Outlook Donald. O. Mitchell, Merlinda D. Ingco and Ronald C. Duncan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) 216 pp. The World Food Outlook is written in response to Neo-Malthusian pessimism about the world's...

A Half Penny on the Federal Dollar: The Future of Development Aid.(Review)
September 22, 1998... A Half Penny on the Federal Dollar: The Future of Development Aid Michael O'Hanlon and Carol Graham (Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press, 1997) 102 pp. The amount of money the United States spends to support economic development...

Changing The Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Changing The Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania Aili Mari Tripp (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 260 pp. Aili Tripp's core argument in her finely crafted new book is at...

Rewarding Work: How to Restore Participation and Self-Support to Free Enterprise.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Rewarding Work: How to Restore Participation and Self-Support to Free Enterprise Edmund Phelps (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997) 198 pp. Discussions of world poverty tend to focus on the plight of developing nations and their...

Cities in the Developing World: Issues, Theory, and Policy.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Cities in the Developing World: Issues, Theory, and Policy Josef Gugler, Editor (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997) 396 pp. Addressing world poverty is impossible without understanding the explosive growth of cities in...