Journal of Development Studies articles from August 1997

Journal of Development Studies archives from August 1997

China's collectivisation puzzle: a new resolution. (collectivized agriculture)
August 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION Collectivised agriculture was a hallmark of the socialist regimes that prevailed in the Soviet Union from the 1920s and in much of eastern Europe and Communist Asia from the 1950s to the 1980s. Among scholars of socialist...

Mutual insurance as an elusive concept in traditional rural communities.
August 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION In their in-depth studies of traditional agrarian societies, anthropologists have repeatedly emphasised the pivotal importance of considerations of economic and social security behind many behavioural patterns or institutions...

A macroeconomic analysis of agricultural terms of trade in Turkey, 1952-90.
August 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION Changes in agricultural terms of trade (the ratio of agricultural to industrial price; henceforth TOT) have serious ramifications for the intersectoral transfer of resources, rural welfare, rural-urban migration, and farmers'...

NGOs and the institutional development of membership organisations: a Kenyan case. (non-governmental organizations)
August 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION Understanding Institutional Development Although attempts to promote membership organisations have been a central feature of NGOs' development activities for many years, the subject remains only sparsely documented and poorly...

Modelling the impact of World Bank policy-based lending: the case of Malawi's agricultural sector.
August 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION Since the early 1980s the World Bank has supported structural adjustment programmes in a large number of developing countries. Such programmes consist of loans to support the balance of payments along with attached policy...

The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: A Comparative Study.
August 1, 1997... This book presents a synthesis and discussion of the results of a large, multi-country World Bank study of the economic history of 21 LDCs between 1950 and 1985. The approach chosen is a combination of analytical economic history and political...

Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements.
August 1, 1997... One of the defining features of post-1945 developmentalism was its faith in the capacity of men and women, or more usually states and governments, to transform external nature (the environment) and internal nature (the body) and to render both...

The Indonesian Economy since 1966: Southeast Asia's Emerging Giant.
August 1, 1997... Indonesia today counts among the so-called HPAEs (Highly Performing Asian Economies), to use a term coined by the World Bank only in 1993. The remarkable economic growth in Indonesia under the New Order, since 1966, is being acknowledged even by...

Accounting for Economic Development and Social Change.
August 1, 1997... The research reported in this volume illustrates the potential of large multi-sector models. Despite there being only some 120 pages of text, it is not a quick read; the book includes 63 tables in the text and a further 41 tables in the...

Social and Demographic Accounting.
August 1, 1997... This edited volume is a collection of 'essays in honour of Sir Richard Stone'. According to the cover notes, the ten essays and introduction in this book provide 'a state-of-the-art account of developments and applications of the social...

Constraints on the Success of Structural Adjustment Programmes in Africa.
August 1, 1997... How effective is structural adjustment in restoring growth and reducing poverty? This is a question which is still central to the development debate after 15 years of structural adjustment programmes in Africa and elsewhere. The IMF and the World...

Regionalism and the Global Economy: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean.
August 1, 1997... This is an odd, little book. It constitutes the proceedings of a seminar on the relationship between regional economic integration and global economic cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean held at the headquarters of the United Nations...

Halting Degradation of Natural Resources: Is There a Role for Rural Communities?
August 1, 1997... There was once a time when scholars of common property regimes could be forgiven for merely citing Garett Hardin's infamous article on the 'tragedy of the commons' [Hardin, 1968], pointing out its confusion of 'common property' with 'open...

China's Transitional Economy.
August 1, 1997... The papers in this volume are reprinted from the December 1995 issue of The China Quarterly, and are based on a conference whose aim was to interpret China's transitional economy in the perspective of the post-communist economies of the Soviet...

The Chinese Economy under Deng Xiaoping.
August 1, 1997... This readable book consists of a revised and updated set of papers which originally appeared in a special issue of The Chinese Quarterly. It should appeal to economists specialising in China as well as a wider audience. The succinct introduction...

Population and Human Resources Development in the Sudan.
August 1, 1997... There is an air of fantasy about this book. If population and labour market models were reality, then the Sudan would be a different place from what it is. If the Sudanese state were not falling apart, then many of the detailed policy suggestions...

What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health.
August 1, 1997... Lesley Doyal is a highly respected pioneer of the study of the political economy of health and her 1979 text is probably still the best on this subject. Here she does not even list it in her bibliography and it soon becomes clear that her earlier...