Journal of Development Studies articles from August 1999

Journal of Development Studies archives from August 1999

Relationships and traders in Madagascar.
August 1, 1999... Sociologists have long emphasised the crucial role that interpersonal relationships play in the life and professional success of individuals and groups [e.g., Coleman, 1988; Granovetter, 1985; Putnam, Leonardi and Nanetti, 1993]. In recent...

Gender differences in the incidence of rural to urban migration: evidence from Kenya.
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION A little less than three decades ago, Harris and Todaro [1970] formalised the hypothesis that the incidence of rural to urban migration in developing countries proceeds in response to urban to rural differences in expected...

Globalisation and the Brazilian steel industry: 1988-97.
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Since 1988 the forces of globalisation, comprising principally of privatisation and trade liberalisation have been applied extensively, although not uniformly, throughout the Brazilian economy. This phenomenon has sparked...

Output effects of devaluation: evidence from Asia.
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION Currency devaluation aims primarily at correcting chronic deficits in the balance of payments of a country. By raising the domestic currency price of foreign exchange, devaluation increases the price of traded goods which...

Economic growth, income inequality and poverty in China under economic reforms.
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION China's gross domestic product [GDP] more than quadrupled during the period 1978-96 under economic reforms. Real per capita disposable incomes more than tripled in the cities and almost quadrupled in the countryside. This...

Credit access, human capital and class structure mobility.
August 1, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION The well-documented success of microenterprise credit programmes in recent years has led to an explosion of interest in their use as a tool for alleviating poverty and generating economic growth in both developing and...

Trade, technology and labour markets in the world economy, 1970-90: a computable general equilibrium analysis - corrigendum and addendum.
August 1, 1999... In an earlier article in this journal [Minford, Riley and Nowell, 1997], we used a computable general equilibrium model of the world economy to generate predictions of the effects of various potential shocks over the period 1970-90; we then...