Journal of Development Studies articles from April 1997

Journal of Development Studies archives from April 1997

The determinants of earnings among low-income workers in Bombay: an analysis of panel data.
April 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION In this article, an attempt is made to estimate the determinants of earnings of urban workers, based on longitudinal data for two time periods on earnings of workers in four low-income settlements of the city of Bombay. An...

Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.
April 1, 1997... The critique of theories and practices applied by the international development community in Asia, Africa and Latin America has a long history. In the 1960s and the 1970s it went under the broad heading of dependency theory, was expressed in the...

An opportunity lost: Escobar's deconstruction of development. (Arturo Escobar's book 'Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World')
April 1, 1997... The critique of theories and practices applied by the international development community in Asia, Africa and Latin America has a long history. In the 1960s and the 1970s it went under the broad heading of dependency theory, was expressed in the...

Trade Policies and Developing Nations.
April 1, 1997... This volume is one of the Brookings Institution's excellent series on 'Integrating National Economies: Promise and Pitfalls'. It is written by a genuine expert on the subject, Anne Krueger: an Economist who has not only been a leading analyst of...

Constructing Democracy, Human Rights, Citizenship and Society in Latin America.
April 1, 1997... This edited collection is part of the 'third wave' of democratisation studies. The first consisted mainly of nuts and bolts analyses, detailing the collapse of authoritarian regimes in the 1980s and the early transitions. The second emphasised...

Popular Development: Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Development.
April 1, 1997... Both these books take as their point of departure an assumed 'crisis' in the theory and practice of development. They have other things in common too: both look critically at the inability of most current models to accommodate the diversity and...

The Development Practitioners' Handbook.
April 1, 1997... Both these books take as their point of departure an assumed 'crisis' in the theory and practice of development. They have other things in common too: both look critically at the inability of most current models to accommodate the diversity and...

Exchange Rate Parity for Trade and Development.
April 1, 1997... The central thesis of this stimulating and well-written book is that, in a developing country, market forces tend to drive the exchange rate down to a socially suboptimal level. This occurs because the individual citizens of a developing country...

African Boundaries: Barriers, Conduits and Opportunities.
April 1, 1997... This is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on borderlands in Africa. Within its ambitious scope, African Boundaries offers insights into pre-colonial and colonial history, war, refugees, veterinary medicine, crop health...

Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue.
April 1, 1997... This book calls for the decolonisation of knowledge. Editorially, it issues from the heart of the American academy. The standpoint advocated by Apffel-Marglin is that of multi-culturalism, a North American intellectual preoccupation. According to...

Patriarchy and Development: Women's Positions at the End of the Twentieth Century.
April 1, 1997... This collection assesses the effects of development on women and on gender relations in a diverse range of societies, cultures and historical periods; development being interpreted broadly to encompass almost any form of social transition. The...

Asia in Japan's Embrace: Building a Regional Production Alliance.
April 1, 1997... Walter Hatch and Kozo Yamamura draw on ideas from developmentalism and game theory in their study of Japanese economic advancement in Asia; they look at the vertical quasi-integration between Japanese and Asian firms, and the vertical political...