Journal of Development Studies articles from August 1996

Journal of Development Studies archives from August 1996

Nutrition, labour productivity and labour supply of men and women in Ghana.
August 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION Food Production and Nutritional Adequacy in Ghana Before the launching of the Economic Reform Programme in 1983 Ghana's food production had fallen to an abysmally low level in response to the general deterioration in...

Urban bias in price risk: the geography of food price distributions in low-income economies.
August 1, 1996... This article considers the proposition that objective food price risk(1) is experienced differently in rural and urban areas of economies characterised by spatially concentrated patterns of foodgrains storage. The principal finding is that in...

Income portfolios in rural Ethiopia and Tanzania: Choices and constraints.
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION Peasant households in developing countries typically earn income from many different sources. A rural household may have a plot of land, purchase consumer goods and inputs in local markets, and grow crops both for...

Labour market segmentation in Cameroonian manufacturing.
August 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION Labour market segmentation can be defined as the existence of separate sectors of the economy ('dual markets' if there are only two), between which there are differences in workers' wages that are not explained by the...

The shadow value of migrant remittances, income and inequality in a household-farm economy.
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION The impact of migrant remittances upon household-farm economies in developing countries has become an important research and policy question as migration increasingly links household farms with distant labour markets, both...

Nutrition, health and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: is there a gender bias?
August 1, 1996... Anthropometric, mortality, and population data presented by Svedberg [1990] in this journal suggested a slight anti-male bias in undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. This article re-analyses some of the same anthropometric, mortality, and...

Gender bias in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reply and further evidence. (reply to article by Stephen Klasen in this issue, p. 913)
August 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION I welcome Stephan Klasen's [1996] comment on my article on gender differentials in anthropometric status and mortality in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries [Svedberg, 1990]. It gives an opportunity to elaborate on...

Rejoinder. (reply to article by Peter Svedverg in this issue, p. 933)
August 1, 1996... Before discussing the disagreements between Svedberg's and my interpretation of the evidence, it is important to note that there are considerable areas of agreement. We both agree that the data do not show a gender bias of the levels observed in...

Monetary and Financial Policies in Developing Countries: Growth and Stabilisation.
August 1, 1996... By Akhtar Hossain and Anis Chowdhury. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp.x + 230. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 415 10870 5 This book contains nine chapters surveying theoretical and empirical work on the roles of money and finance in economic...

Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance.
August 1, 1996... By Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. Pp. vi + 227. 45 [pound sterling] and 12.95 [pound sterling]. ISBN 0 7456 1244 X and 1245 8 "`Globalization" is a myth suitable for a world without illusions, but it is also...

Aid and Political Conditionality.
August 1, 1996... Edited by Olav Stokke (EADI Book Series 16). London: Frank Cass, 1995. Pp.xviii + 417. 35 [pound sterling] and 19.50 [pound sterling]. ISBN 0 7146 4640 7 and 4162 Traditionally Western government gave aid to oppressive regimes, whose nearly...

Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America.
August 1, 1996... Edited by Nora Lustig. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995. Pp.xviii + 460. $39.95 and $18.50 ISBN 0 8157 5318 7 and 5317 9 Despite recent economic setbacks in Mexico and Argentina the general consensus among most mainstream...

Unshackling the Private Sector: A Latin American Story.
August 1, 1996... By Paul Holden and Sarath Rajapatirana. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1995. $10.95. ISBN 0 8213 3336 4 In Latin America the 1980s represented a decade of adjustment from inward-looking import substitution regimes to outward-oriented and...

Debating Developmental Discourse.
August 1, 1996... Edited by David Moore and Gerald Schmitz (Foreword by Colin Leys). London: Macmillan, 1995. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 312 12886 X This edited collection is a largely successful attempt to deconstruct three of the current 'buzzwords' of...

Lessons in Economic Policy for Eastern Europe from Latin America.
August 1, 1996... Edited by Gary McMahon. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.xxii + 256. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 333 64270 8 The premise of this book is that Eastern Europe can learn important policy lessons from the experience of economic liberalisation in Latin...