Journal of Development Studies articles

Recent articles from Journal of Development Studies

World income distribution: which way?
June 1, 2004... I. INTRODUCTION Several inter-related issues concerning income distribution in the world have come to the forefront in recent years. A major stimulus has been the many efforts to renew growth theory since the seminal works of Lucas [1988] and Romer [1990], which pose new questions for...

Exploring social capital debates at the World Bank.
June 1, 2004... I. INTRODUCTION This article is located at the intersection of two literatures. The first relates to the study of development institutions and the practices that surround the production of discourses and their translation into material practices of intervention. The second addresses...

Relationships between household consumption and inequality in the Indian States.
June 1, 2004... I. INTRODUCTION It is widely argued that economic growth plays a key role in enabling effective poverty reduction. But how effective growth is in delivering poverty reduction depends critically on one of the age-old development issues: the relationship between growth and distribution....

Women's wellbeing and the sex ratio at birth: some suggestive evidence from India.(phenomenon of sex selective foeticide)
June 1, 2004... I. INTRODUCTION The sex ratio of a population is a quantification of the weight of females in a population, and is employed in this article to denote either the ratio of females to males or the proportion of females in the population. It has been fairly widely recognised that the sex...

Resource management under climatic risk: a case study from Niger.
June 1, 2004... I. INTRODUCTION Rainfall variation is often identified as the major risk faced by agro-pastoralists in the arid and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa [Swallow, 1994]. In these environments, households must adopt mechanisms to manage the variability in production of crops and...