Journal of Development Studies articles from April 1993

Journal of Development Studies archives from April 1993

The state, interest groups and structural adjustment in Zimbabwe.
April 1, 1993... In 1990, the Zimbabwean government led by the proclaimed Marxist-Leninist, President Robert Mugabe, embarked upon a World Bank-sponsored Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP). This happened after a decade of independence characterised...

Entitlement relations and 'unruly' social practices: a comment on the work of Amartya Sen.
April 1, 1993... meaningful sense rather than simply a normative sense, must be negotiated. Once again the use of power is involved in this negotiation. As Giddens [1979: 83] puts it, 'Power is expressed in the capabilities of actors to make certain "account...

The economic impact of a foreign debt bail-out for private firms in Ecuador.
April 1, 1993... The rapid accumulation of foreign debt that occurred in the 1970s was not just the work of governments; in many middle-income countries, private banks and firms also borrowed heavily from foreign banks.(1) As firms' exposure grew, a new and...

Unanticipated capital flows and the Mexican economy: an empirical investigation.
April 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION This research explores, within a two gap framework, the ways in which the domestic economy in Mexico is affected by the inflow of foreign resources. Theory suggests that in a foreign exchange constrained economy an increase in...

Ballots and bullets: election riots in the Periphery, 1874-1985.
April 1, 1993... Liberal institutions, especially elections, are grounded in the normative premise that it is better to count heads than to crack them. In practice, however, these institutions have had a mixed record of success in the world. Whereas they have...

OECD imports of leather: Indian performance and real exchange rates of the Indian rupee. (Organization for Economic and Cooperation and Development)
April 1, 1993... I. INTRODUCTION India has traditionally been a prominent exporter of leather to OECD markets. Table 1 presents figures for total imports and imports from India into the major OECD importing countries of leather (SITC 611) and leather products...

Potato-led growth: the macroeconomic effects of technological innovations in Bolivian agriculture.
April 1, 1993... Through the use of a Computable General Equilibrium model we measure the economy-wide effects of improving the production technology of relatively non-traded staples (potatoes, maize), import crops (wheat), and export crops (soybeans) in Bolivia....

Developing countries' terms of trade in manufactures, 1967-87: a note.
April 1, 1993... Over the long run the prices of raw commodities exported by developing countries have declined relative to the prices of manufactured goods |cf. Grilli and Yang, 1988~. Therefore, developing countries have been advised to diversify their exports...

The Human Factor in Rural Development.
April 1, 1993... Of all the social sciences, it is perhaps anthropology that has had the most ambivalent, and often hostile relationship with planned social change. In The Human Factor, Tom Gabriel, an anthropologist who does both applied development consultancy...

Population and Development Planing in China.
April 1, 1993... A nation's demography not only influences its development, but in its turn is also one of the factors prone to manipulation by governments as they attempt to advance economic progress. Nowhere in the modern world has this been so evidently...

Conflict, Peace and Development in the Caribbean.
April 1, 1993... It is of course a commonplace to observe in reviews of edited books generated by conferences that the quality of the papers is uneven. It is rare, though, to find a work with such a stark disparity between the merits of the various chapters as...

Land Delivery for Low Income Groups in Third World Cities.
April 1, 1993... This book is, unashamedly, a literature review and not the result of original fieldwork. The book aims to review the level of current understanding of urban land markets in third world cities. As such, it suffers from the fate of a great many...

To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979.
April 1, 1993... The overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship in 1979 initiated not only a decade of revolutionary government in Nicaragua but also marked the start of an intense academic interest in the country's politics. In attempting to account for the initial...

The Reconstruction of Afghanistan: A Chance for Rural Afghan Women.
April 1, 1993... This volume does not deal with the reconstruction of war-torn Afghanistan in the post-Soviet withdrawal period as its title implies. It examines the destruction of the country during the nine years of Soviet occupation in 1979-89 and the exodus...

Big Dams, Displaced People: Rivers of Sorrow, Rivers of Change.
April 1, 1993... All of the 200 large dams built in India since Independence have cost far more than was estimated, and have resulted in far less benefit. Most have had higher costs than benefits. They have also made the rich richer and the poor poorer....