Journal of Development Studies articles from April 1998

Journal of Development Studies archives from April 1998

State building in the African countryside: structure and politics at the grassroots.
April 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION There is now near-consensus over the proposition that institutional reform is a necessary part of the solution to rural Africa's economic and political malaise. In response to profound agrarian crisis and the apparent...

Trust and inter-firm relations in developing and transition economies.
April 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION In the recent debate on economic performance in advanced countries, trust has emerged as a critical issue. Trust-based relations between economic agents have been seen as part of the competitive advantage of manufacturing...

Farm productivity and rural poverty in India.
April 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION The following questions have been asked repeatedly in development research and policy making over many decades: How much do poor rural people share in the gains from higher average productivity in agriculture? This has been...

Water scarcity, property regimes and irrigation management in Sonjo, Tanzania.
April 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Indigenous irrigation systems are often studied from a synchronic perspective and therefore viewed as static and unchanging. Studies by anthropologists and political scientists concentrate mostly on management patterns and rules...

Wage determination in Brazil: the growth of union bargaining power and informal employment.
April 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION This article addresses the question of wage determination in Brazil, a country which for most of the post-war period has suffered high inflation and macroeconomic instability. The Brazilian labour market has in the 1980s...

Fiscal decentralisation and LDC economic growth: an empirical investigation. (less developed country)
April 1, 1998... Beginning in the early to mid-1970s, there has been a resurgence of interest among development specialists, multilateral development agencies, economists, and less developed country (LDC) governments in using fiscal decentralisation as a...

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Project Appraisal in Developing Countries.
April 1, 1998... This book contains a very useful review of the development, and current state, of cost-benefit analysis in its application to projects in developing countries. There have been considerable developments in both theory and practice since the...

Chile: The Great Transformation.
April 1, 1998... In 1994, the Brookings Institution published (and Barry Bosworth edited) what remains the best single English-language volume on the economic policies adopted by the military regime in Chile between 1973 and 1989. The contributing authors...

The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia.
April 1, 1998... British anthropologist Kate Crehan carried out an 18-month stint of fieldwork among Kaonde-speakers between 1979 and 1981 in Kasempa District, in Zambia's Northwestern Province. That work produced an doctoral dissertation (K. Crehan, 'Production,...

Village Economies: The Design, Estimation, and Use of Villagewide Economic Models.
April 1, 1998... The publishers have included 'Advance Praise for Village Economies' by three well-known economists on the dust cover of this book. The praise is unstinting, with the reviewers concluding that this is an important book. With a cynicism bred of...

Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives.
April 1, 1998... This is the long-awaited companion volume to India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), already reviewed in this journal. Sandwiched between a brief chapter (by Amartya Sen) providing a summary as well as...

Politics Without Process: Administering Development in the Arab World.
April 1, 1998... Although political conflicts and inadequate government systems are often blamed for the economic development failures in the Arab World, much less has been written about administrative processes. Most political scientists and political economists...

Population, Gender and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural North India.
April 1, 1998... The authors chose to investigate the sensitive issues indicated in the title in a small part of rural North India with which they were familiar from previous work and considered peaceful enough to bring their two-year-old daughter. What they did...

Human Development Report 1997.
April 1, 1998... The UNDP's Human Development Report has for several years stood as an annual complement to the data and perspectives provided in the World Bank's World Development Report. In promoting the Human Development Index in particular, it has had some...

Class Power and Agrarian Change: Land and Labour in Rural West Java.
April 1, 1998... Over the past three decades, rural Java has gone through a series of sweeping economic, technological and demographic changes. Agricultural production has increased rapidly, mainly through yield increases induced by the application of new...

A Claim to Land by the River: A Household in Senegal, 1720-1994.
April 1, 1998... Development can be bad news for peasants anywhere, and in this well documented narrative one is offered a small-holder's perspective on that kind of bad news in the case of irrigated farming in the Senegal River valley. The people who profit from...

Foreign Aid Towards the Year 2000: Experiences and Challenges.
April 1, 1998... The volume under review is the latest in the series edited by Olav Stokke presenting papers from the annual meeting of the EADI Working Group on Aid Policy and Performance and the Association's General Conference. Each of the eleven chapters...

Striking a Balance: A Guide to Enhancing the Effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organisations in International Development.
April 1, 1998... How do non-governmental organisations work? What are the characteristics of successful non-governmental organisations involved in international development? What steps can other non-governmental organisations take to increase their effectiveness?...

The Role of NGOs Under Authoritarian Political Systems.
April 1, 1998... How do non-governmental organisations work? What are the characteristics of successful non-governmental organisations involved in international development? What steps can other non-governmental organisations take to increase their effectiveness?...

Democracy and Development in Africa.
April 1, 1998... There is much evidence that economic development has eluded most of Africa over the last three decades: per capita incomes have fallen, health and educational services have deteriorated, and capital and social infrastructure remains in great...

Searching for Security: Women's Responses to Economic Transformations.
April 1, 1998... The time is ripe for a great leap forward in the analysis of social institutions and social policy. Baud and Smythe's edited volume takes a first step in tackling this relationship, through the lens of women's organisational responses to policy...

Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World.
April 1, 1998... This book centres on an important and growing area for research, namely the rise of local grassroots organisations, or social movements, and the growth of non-traditional political movements, such as the Zapatistas in the state of Chiapas in...