Journal of Development Studies articles from April 2000

Journal of Development Studies archives from April 2000

Contract Flexibility and Dispute Resolution in African Manufacturing.(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... This article examines the contractual practices of African manufacturing firms using survey data collected in Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Descriptive statistics and econometric results are presented. They show...

Trade Liberalisation, Government Expenditure and Economic Growth in Egypt.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... This article investigates the combined effects of growth in government expenditure, exports, investment and labour supply on economic growth in Egypt between 1955 and 1996. Using cointegration and error correction models, the article finds a...

Introduction: Structural Adjustment, Labour Markets and Employment: Some Considerations for Sensible People.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... Structural adjustment programmes were invented as a rapid policy fix to reduce external vulnerability of developing countries after the Mexican debt crisis in 1982. Despite their modest success thereafter, they still dominate national and...

Deindustrialisation and the Social and Economic Sustainability Nexus in Developing Countries: Cross-Country Evidence on Productivity and Employment.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... In an empirical investigation of the interactions between industrial structure and macro outcomes, an accounting framework was applied to relate changes in sectoral employment and output compositions to changes in overall productivity growth...

Employment, Structural Adjustment and Sustainable Growth in Mexico.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... The impact of slow growth since the early 1980s on the Mexican labour market is analysed by comparing Mexico's employment performance to that of other OECD countries through three different components, that is, the labour force participation...

Adjustment, Stabilisation and the Structure of Employment in Brazil.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2000... A significant change in the structure of employment in Brazil in the period 1988-95 took place. Industrial employment fell, especially in the most traditional sectors such as clothing, textiles and footwear. There has been a shift of workers...

The Structure of Employment and Structural Adjustment in the Philippines.
April 1, 2000... Growth in the 1970s seemed, at that time, to have brought the Philippines to a rather high equilibrium growth path. But the foreign debt and political crisis in the early and mid-1980s had brought the economy down to a lower equilibrium path....

Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. By David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton. Cambridge: Polity, 1999. Pp.xxiii + 515. [pound]59.50 and [pound]16.99. ISBN 0 7456 1498 1 and 1499 X There can...

Housing and Finance in Developing Countries.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Housing and Finance in Developing Countries. Edited by Kavita Datta and Gareth A. Jones. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp.xxiii + 270. [pound]50. ISBN 0 415 17242 X This book is one of the few compilations of specialised papers on...

Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance. Edited by Adebayo Adedeji. London and New York: Zed Books, in association with African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (Ijebu-Ode,...

Income Poverty and Beyond: Human Development in India.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Income Poverty and Beyond: Human Development in India. Edited by Raja J. Chelliah and R. Sudarshan. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 1999. Pp.xxvi + 221. Rs 395. ISBN 81 87358 00 9 This book is a collection of background papers on India,...

Fiscal Decentralisation in Developing Countries.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Fiscal Decentralisation in Developing Countries. Edited by Richard M. Bird and Francois Vaillancourt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 304. [pound]37.50 (US$59.95). ISBN 0 521 64143 8 The theoretical and empirical...

The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods. By Ravi Kanbur and Todd Sandier with Kevin M. Morrison. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1999. ODC Policy Essay No.25. Pp.x + 106. $34.95/[pound]10.50. ISBN 1...

The Global Crisis in Foreign Aid.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Global Crisis in Foreign Aid. Edited by Richard Grant and Jan Nijman. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Pp.xxiv + 224. $34.95. ISBN 0 8156 2771 8 The book's title addresses an important topical problem, likely to induce...

Economic Development.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Economic Development. By Michael P. Todaro. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000. Seventh Edition. Pp.xxvi + 783. [pound]24.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 201 64858 X Growth and Development: With Special Reference to Developing Economies. By A.P....

A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala.(Review)
April 1, 2000... A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala. By Diane M. Nelson, Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1999. $55.00 and $22.00. Pp.xvii +450. ISBN 0 520 21284 3 and 21285 1 Guatemala signed peace accords in late...