Journal of Development Studies articles from April 1992

Journal of Development Studies archives from April 1992

African Successes: Four Public Managers of Kenyan Rural Development.
April 1, 1992... This is one of the most impressive books on development that I have read for a long time. I would like to think that many colleagues will also enjoy and profit from reading it, yet fear that they may not. For it does not embody the kind of...

Women, Employment and the Family in the International Division of Labour.
April 1, 1992... Women, Employment and the Family in the International Division of Labour is the second volume which sociologist, Sharon Stichter and historian, Jane Parpart, have undertaken to edit collaboratively. While both authors together, independently,...

Women and the Environment - A Reader: Crisis and Development in the Third World.
April 1, 1992... The impetus behind this book, according to Sontheimer, is |... to tell the too often untold story of women living in the face of ecological distress in developing countries' (introduction), and it certainly fulfils that goal. However, the need...

The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy, 2 vols.
April 1, 1992... These volumes are the first two books to appear in a five-book series. The series represents the final product of a World Bank research programme on agricultural price policies in developing countries which was conducted during the mid- to late...

Harvesting Change: Labor and Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua, 1979-1990.
April 1, 1992... Most books published on Nicaragua during the post-1979 period fall into one of two categories. Many are glowing reports that describe the laudatory goals of the Sandinista Revolution and blame the problems of the Revolution entirely on the US...

Peasants in Distress: Poverty and Underdevelopment in the Dominican Republic.
April 1, 1992... Not many books are published about the Dominican Republic in the English language. While neighbouring Haiti is trampled by jounalists and academics, the Dominican Republic is relatively understudied. We may, therefore, be happy that a monograph...

Rice, Rupees and Rituals: Economy and Society Among the Samosir Batak of Sumatra.
April 1, 1992... This is an ethnographic study of a small community in northern Sumatra. Based on detailed field data, the author describes and analyses the changing economy of the village from the coming of the Dutch to this area in 1906 up to the present....

Religion Under Bureaucracy: Policy and Administration for Hindu Temples in South India.
April 1, 1992... This book is a fascinating study of the attempts by the state in South India to control and regulate Hindu temples. Despite early British attempts to disengage themselves from involvement in religious institutions, the state had little choice...

Quantitative Techniques in Employment Planning.
April 1, 1992... This small book contains five papers culled from a 1985 workshop at the ILO, on manpower and employment planning. It is arranged so that conceptual issues occupy the earlier chapters, and later chapters deal with more technical topics. In the...