Journal of Development Studies articles from April 1995

Journal of Development Studies archives from April 1995

Reducing the size of the public sector workforce: institutional constraints and human consequences in Guinea.
April 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Restoring macroeconomic stability and addressing account imbalances has been an important objective of economic policy reform in Africa during the past decade. This has led donors and policy-makers to emphasise reducing the...

Collective efficiency: growth path for small-scale industry.
April 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION How to achieve economic development on the basis of small local industry is a concern for researchers and practitioners world-wide. Indeed, it has been a central issue of development policy for several decades. What is...

Growth of China's rural enterprises: impacts on urban-rural relations.
April 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION China's rural enterprises are economic units established by local government in the countryside or by the peasants themselves. They operate outside the planning system. Rural enterprise output and employment have grown rapidly in...

Technology imports and their impacts on the enhancement of China's indigenous technological capability.
April 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Continued efforts by developing countries to acquire foreign technology are crucial to promote their economic development. In the case of the People's Republic of China (PRC), there has been a demand for foreign technology ever...

The lucky few amidst economic decline: distributional change in Cote d'Ivoire as seen through panel data sets, 1985-88.
April 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The second half of the 1980s was a period of drastic economic decline for Cote d'Ivoire, a decline which continues to this day. Per capita GDP fell by 28 per cent between 1985 and 1990. It would be surprising indeed if this...

An analysis of the nature of unemployment in Sri Lanka.
April 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Beginning with the influential 1971 ILO report, Sri Lanka's serious unemployment problems have been attributed to a mismatch of workers' aspirations and available jobs. The ILO report argued that this mismatch was the result of...

An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution.
April 1, 1995... In this massive and ambitious treatise which ranges across anthropology, demography, ecology, economics, epidemiology, geography, moral and political philosophy, nutrition and physiology, and the environmental and political sciences, Partha...

More People, Less Erosion.
April 1, 1995... This is a carefully researched, fascinating study of what was, in earlier times, a problem area of Kenya; a semi-arid region known as the badlands, locked in a downward spiral of gross overstocking, appalling soil erosion, and consequent poverty...

Educating All the Children: Strategies for Primary Schooling in the South.
April 1, 1995... One of the most important papers submitted to the World Conference on Education for All held in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990 was one from Colclough and Lewin entitled 'Strategies for Primary Schooling in the South'. It had a profound impact and...

Mortality and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa.
April 1, 1995... This book is a recent addition to the series in International Studies in Demography published by Clarendon for the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). As such, it consists of 18 contributions from leading...

Disasters, Development and Environment.
April 1, 1995... This lively and informative collection constitutes some of the latest thinking within vulnerability analysis/environmental risk, and is basically an appraisal of the pluralism which continues to characterise research on hazards and hazard...

Understanding the Developing Metropolis: Lessons from the City Study of Bogota and Cali, Colombia.
April 1, 1995... From 1977 to 1981 the World Bank undertook a major study of Bogota, with supplementary work being conducted in Cali. By social science standards the cost of this project was immense; vast numbers of experts, consultants and research assistants...

Environment and Housing in Third World Cities.
April 1, 1995... The important position of Third World cities within the wider global environmental concerns of the early 1990s was demonstrated at the Earth Summit of June 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. There was general agreement that the developing world's growing...

Patron-Client Politics and Business in Bangladesh.
April 1, 1995... Divided into three parts this interesting book first deals with the political, social and cultural context within which interest-group behaviour in Bangladesh was located in. The author then examines the structure of business associations, how...

Poverty in the 1990s: The Response of Urban Women.
April 1, 1995... The contributors to Poverty in the 1990's are women of at least four continents who address the struggles of poor women surviving on urban margins in developing countries. Recurring themes of their ten papers are the world recession, debt crisis...

Latin American Development and Public Policy.
April 1, 1995... The changing political landscape of Latin America in the 1980s and early 1990s forms the backdrop to this edited collection of essays. Originally presented at the 1991 Buenos Aires conference of the International Political Science Association...

The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise.
April 1, 1995... It is far easier to pose and debate issues about the 'growth of capitalism' in developing countries than it is to answer them with any degree of confidence. In his final chapter, Forrest addresses a series of questions about African capitalism...

Balanced Development: East Java in the New Order.
April 1, 1995... The blurb on the jacket of this book claims that 'No such in-depth study has yet been made of a single province of Indonesia or for that matter of any similar region in any other country in South-East Asia'. Although the last point is open to...

Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the United Nations and the International Community.
April 1, 1995... The material of this book comes from a conference on Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia held at Yale Law School on 21-22 February 1992. The seven chapters are contributed by the following specialists: Kate Frieson, a political scientist; May...

On the Line: Life on the US-Mexican Border.
April 1, 1995... On the Line is a thorough and moving piece of investigative reporting by Canadian journalist Augusta Dwyer. It is difficult to imagine how even those readers without a particular existing interest in Mexico could read this book without feeling a...