Journal of Development Studies articles from August 1998

Journal of Development Studies archives from August 1998

New perspectives on East Asian development.
August 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Rapid growth, rising living standards and increased international competitiveness in the economies of East Asia have caught the attention of policy-makers and researchers in other developing regions, as well as in the developed...

Income distribution and growth in East Asia.
August 1, 1998... Europe was so organised socially and economically as to secure the maximum accumulation of capital. While there was some continuous improvement in the daily condition of the mass of the population, society was so framed as to throw a great part...

Transferable lessons? Re-examining the institutional prerequisites of East Asian economic policies.
August 1, 1998... Prior to the East Asian financial crisis, trying to extract transferable lessons from East Asia was a major cottage industry. And well it should have been. If developing countries in other regions were to experience the economic growth that...

Institutions and growth in Korea and Taiwan: the bureaucracy.
August 1, 1998... In the last decade, the debate about the role of government in the growth of the East Asian newly industrialising countries (NICs) - Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan - has undergone an evolution. The initial controversy centred on the...

Savings, investment and the corporation in the East Asian miracle.
August 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Although there is considerable controversy concerning the reasons for fast economic growth in East Asia, most economists accept that high rates of savings and investments in these countries have been a key factor in their economic...

'Beneath the pavement only soil': the poverty of post-development.
August 1, 1998... These are strange times in development studies. There are few takers now for a socialist alternative to capitalism, and the Right, suitably encouraged by the impasse in radical development thinking, has pushed ahead with its declarations of a...

The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith.
August 1, 1998... By Gilbert Rist. London: Zed Books, 1997. Pp.vi + 276. [pounds]42.50/$65 and [pounds]14.95/$25. ISBN 1 85649 491 8 and 492 6 These are strange times in development studies. There are few takers now for a socialist alternative to capitalism, and...

Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures.
August 1, 1998... By Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash. London: Zed Books, 1998. Pp.223. [pounds]45/$62.50 and [pounds]14.95/$22.50. ISBN 1 85649 545 0 and 546 9 These are strange times in development studies. There are few takers now for a socialist...

The Post-Development Reader.
August 1, 1998... Edited by Majid Rahnema with Victoria Bawtree. London: Zed Books, 1997. [pounds]45.00/$65 and [pounds]15.95/$25. ISBN 1 85649 473 X and 474 8 These are strange times in development studies. There are few takers now for a socialist alternative...

International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge.
August 1, 1998... Edited by Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 361. [pounds]40/$50 and [pounds] 14.95/$20. ISBN 0 520 20956 7 These are strange times in development studies. There are few takers...

Southeast Asia: the Human Landscape of Modernization and Development.
August 1, 1998... By Jonathan Rigg. London: Rout/edge, 1997. Pp.xxv + 326.[pounds]45 and [pounds]14.99. ISBN 0 415 13920 1 and 13921 X The importance of economic change in Southeast Asia to broader debades about development cannot be exaggerated. Home to the...

Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy.
August 1, 1998... By Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. Pp.vii + 244. US$45.00 and US$19.95. ISBN 0 8229 4041 8 and 5646 2. Williams and Walter have produced a lucid survey of the militarization of...

New Theories in Growth and Development.
August 1, 1998... Edited by Fabrizio Coricelli, Massimo di Matteo and Frank Hahn. London: Croom Helm, 1998. Pp.viii + 304. [pounds]50. ISBN 0312 17621 X This is a disappointing book, not least because it is made up of ten papers (plus editorial introduction)...

Localizing Modernity: Action, Interests and Association in Rural Zambia.
August 1, 1998... By Jeremy Gould. Helsinki: The Finnish Anthropological Society, 1997. Pp.xiv + 286. ISBN 952 9573 18 9 This work is not a monograph in the ethnological tradition: rather, rural Africa provides a background for the theoretical considerations...

Income, Inequality, and Poverty During the Transition from Planned to Market Economy.
August 1, 1998... By Branko Milanovic. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1997. Pp.xiii + 237. $30. ISBN 0 8231 3994 X The World Bank speaks with more than one voice on poverty and social security matters (Deacon et al., Global Social Policy.' International...