Journal of Development Studies articles from December 1994

Journal of Development Studies archives from December 1994

Central bank independence: a political economy approach.
December 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION The question of central bank independence has recently entered the policy agenda of many countries, cutting across both development status and political regime. Countries of the North and the South, the post socialist states of...

The short-run trade-off between food subsidies and agricultural production subsidies in developing countries.
December 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION In formulating agricultural policy in developing countries, a key issue facing policy-makers is the choice of alternative means of improving the short-run welfare of poor households in the population. Among these policy...

Credit rationing in small-scale enterprises: special microenterprise programs in Ecuador.
December 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Small-scale rural and urban enterprises have been the concern of many policy-makers attempting to accelerate the development process in low income countries. These enterprises often receive several types of aid in the form of...

Technology, firm size and export behavior in developing countries: the case of Indian enterprises.
December 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION A growing body of literature has addressed itself to an analysis of export performance of enterprises in industrialised and developing countries. The neo-factor endowment and neo-technology theories of international trade have...

Booming-sector economic activity in Paraguay 1973-86: a case of Dutch disease?
December 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION During the decade of the 1970s, a period of external shocks and economic instability for much of Latin America, the Paraguayan economy achieved extraordinarily high rates of economic growth.(1) At the same time, Paraguay in the...

Agricultural wages in Bangladesh: what do the figures really show? (comment on article by R.W. Palmer-Jones, Journal of Development Studies, vol. 29, p. 277, 1993) (Discussion)
December 1, 1994... In a recent article in this journal, Palmer-Jones (P-J) [1993] has taken exception to the conclusions of Boyce and Ravallion (B&R) [1991].(1) B&R addressed two questions concerning the evolution over time of agricultural wages in Bangladesh: how...

An error corrected? And what the figures really show. (response to article by Martin Ravallion in this issue, p. 334) (Discussion)
December 1, 1994... Martin Ravallion (R) [1994] makes many points in his response to my article on the real wages of agricultural labourers in Bangladesh [Palmer-Jones, 1993] (P-J) which was about the time trends and regional patterns in official statistics of...

On firm- and product-specific true protection. (Discussion)
December 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Trade liberalisation has been an important component of recent policy reform in many countries. The aim in this process is usually to reduce the level and variance of protection to local industries, as well as the anti-export...

The Bias against Agriculture: Trade and Macroeconomic Policies in Developing Countries.
December 1, 1994... If the names of the editors, the provenance of the contributors (they include Anne Krueger, Odin Knudsen and Yair Mundlak), and the clear message of the title are taken as a guide potential readers of the volume reviewed might well appear likely...

Politics, Property and Law in the Philippine Uplands.
December 1, 1994... Although accounting for less than two per cent of the Philippines' 63 million population, tribal Filipinos, concentrated mainly in Western Mindanao and the Cordillera Mountains of Northern Luzon, have long resisted rule from imperial Manila....

Non-Governmental Organisations and the State in Latin America: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development.
December 1, 1994... This book is about the changing roles of Latin American NGOs and government where 'resource-poor' agriculture is concerned. The focus is on technologies and the ways in which government research and extension services have mainly failed to...

Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Africa.
December 1, 1994... This book is the Africa regional study of a global research project co-ordinated by the British Overseas Development Institute. The series aims to answer three key questions in relation to NGOs working in agricultural development - how successful...

Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Asia: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Developments.
December 1, 1994... At a time when Non-Governmental Organisations have assumed a high profile and when the pressures of structural adjustment are rolling back government welfare and development programmes, many welfare donors and even recipient states are looking to...

The Quest for World Environmental Cooperation: The Case of the UN Global Environmental Monitoring System.
December 1, 1994... The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, was a milestone - some might say, the millstone - in launching global multilateral co-operative efforts on major environmental problems. UNEP (United Nations...

Sustainable Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa, vol. 2, Constraints and Opportunities.
December 1, 1994... The 25th anniversary of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) occurred in 1992. Celebratory activities associated with it culminated in December in a symposium held at IITA headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria. This second volume...