Journal of Development Studies articles from April 1994

Journal of Development Studies archives from April 1994

The role of public and private order institutions. (Behind the Market Stage Where Real Societies Exist, part 1)
April 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION It is a striking feature of the current diagnosis about growth failures in Third World and Eastern European countries that government's behaviour and excessive interference with economic activities are considered the source of...

The scope and limits of financial liberalization in developing countries: a critical survey.
April 1, 1994... Financial and trade liberalisation, with borrowing and lending at substantial real rates of interest made possible by a stable price level, is not easy and is full of potential pitfalls. Nevertheless, it remains the only game in town as far as...

Interest rates, saving, investment and growth in Mexico 1960-90: tests of the financial liberalization hypothesis.
April 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION According to the influential models of McKinnon [1973] and Shaw [1973], financial liberalisation is a necessary condition for economic development and a faster pace of economic growth in countries where there is financial...

Will HIV become a major determinant of fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa?
April 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION Over the past five years, as the scale of the epidemic and the severe and widespread nature of its consequences have become increasingly apparent, significant amounts of energy and resources have been devoted towards controlling...

Are pre-schoolers from female-headed households less malnourished? A comparative analysis of results from Ghana and Kenya.
April 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION In general, self-declared female-headed households tend to be poorer, own less land, and have less access to land, labour, and government services, including credit [Gupta, 1989]. It is, therefore, of concern to policymakers that...

Common elements of efficiency wage theories: what relevance for developing countries?
April 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Recently, the design and effectiveness of appropriate labour market policies in the context of structural adjustment in developing countries has received a great deal of attention. For the most part, structural adjustment...

Share tenancy, external risk and labour use: a note on Pakistani data.
April 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION This note examines three rationales for the institution of share cropping by using macro data from Pakistan: (1) The first rationale is that share tenancy allows for risk sharing.(1) (2) The second concerns the potential...

Southeast Asian Capitalists.
April 1, 1994... It is a mystery why this collection should appear in this 'semi-published' form, and not between the hard covers of a prestigious academic press that it merits. Although originating in a 1986 conference, it is work on a subject of great topical...

Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives.
April 1, 1994... Despite its title, this book is concerned with the role, actual and potential, of anthropologists in development work. As Pottier argues in his introduction, the increased interest in community participation and sustainability has led to a...

Economic Stabilisation and Debt in Developing Countries.
April 1, 1994... Professor Richard Cooper's recent monograph on debt and structural adjustment experiences of the developing countries offers a careful analysis of the origin, impact and the possible remedies of the 'lingering problem' of Third World debt. In a...

Making the Commons Work: Theory, Practice and Policy.
April 1, 1994... Since the 1985 Annapolis panel on Common Property Resource Management in the Developing Countries (organised by the US National Academy of Science) there has been a wealth of literature generated on the commons and local institutions that protect...

Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialisation in Java.
April 1, 1994... Wolf's account of the implications of industrialisation and opportunities for factory work in Rural Java is timely and important for two reasons. First, it bridges a gap between the different literatures which have separately been concerned with...

Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses.
April 1, 1994... In most developing countries except for the most developed countries in Latin America the majority of people live in rural areas and make at least a part of their living from farming. The majority of such people are poor in comparison with those...

The Third Revolution: Population, Environment and a Sustainable World.
April 1, 1994... To seek to encompass the whole field of environmental change and its causes, to explore theoretical approaches, seek to integrate them, and come up with a mildly optimistic solution is a daunting task for anyone. To do it in a single quite small...

Wasting the Rain: Rivers, People and Planning in Africa.
April 1, 1994... There are serious flaws in the way water resource projects are planned, and more fundamentally, in the way development is conceived. This is the central thesis of this book, based on an analysis of river valley developments in Africa intended to...

Health and Health Care in Latin America During the Lost Decade: Insights for the 1990s.
April 1, 1994... In the late 1970s the WHO called for 'Health for All by the Year 2000', and advocated the adoption of Primary Health Care in many parts of the developing world. Since then considerable attention has been directed at analysing the health and...

Tourism Marketing and Management in the Caribbean: 1993.
April 1, 1994... The growth of mass tourism in South-East Asia has been recent and spectacular. Tourism in South-East Asia is a collection of 18 papers, most of which were first given at a conference of the Association of South-East Asian Studies in the United...

Drug Policy in the Americas.
April 1, 1994... The essays collected in Drug Policy in the Americas originated in a series of workshops focused primarily on policy options in dealing with drug trafficking and consumption (including marijuana and opium as well as cocaine) held under the...

In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Caracas, Santiago and Mexico City.
April 1, 1994... For almost three decades, politicians, planners, NGOs and researchers have regarded the sprawling self-help settlements at the periphery of most Latin American cities as the key 'problem'. While self-help settlements are highly visible, however,...

Policy-making, Politics, and Urban Governance in Chihuahua: The Experience of Recent PANista Governments.
April 1, 1994... Mexico, along with other Latin American countries, has made claims to be advancing the democratisation of its political system in the last decade. The days of the rule of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) as an almost hegemonic party, a...

The Grameen Bank: Poverty Profile in Bangladesh.
April 1, 1994... This interesting book is about Bangladesh's widely acclaimed Grameen (rural) Bank -- a unique project that extends short-term credit to rural traders, housewives, artisans and other atomistic entrepreneurs, who often lack the minimum collateral...

Domestic and Foreign Finance in Modern Peru: 1850-1950.
April 1, 1994... The purpose of this book is to provide an interpretation of the relationship between private domestic finance, public finance and foreign finance in Peru, between 1850 and 1950. The analysis is organised within a thematic treatment: the colonial...

Out of the Shadows: Women, Resistance and Politics in South America.
April 1, 1994... Jo Fisher has achieved what feminist historians seek to do -- preserve women's history. In Out of the Shadows she has painstakingly documented how women in Latin America's southern cone organised to fight the terrible repression of the military...

When the Grass is Gone: Development Intervention in African Arid Lands.
April 1, 1994... This book comprises a selection of papers presented at a seminar held at the Nordiska Afrikainstitute in September 1990 as part of the Institute's 'Human Life in African Arid Lands' research programme. The seminar brought together researchers...