Journal of Development Studies articles from December 1995

Journal of Development Studies archives from December 1995

Democracy, property rights and economic growth.
December 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION Forecasting is always risky in social sciences. Still, Samuel Huntington's speculation about the future of democracy a decade ago ranks among the most prominent mistaken predictions by a major social scientist. After reviewing the...

Investment, trade liberalisation and structural adjustment.
December 1, 1995... 1. INTRODUCTION There is a large body of evidence that more outward-oriented developing economies have tended to have higher investment rates and per capita growth rates than less outward-oriented ones [Dollar, 1992; Edwards, 1992]. Levine and...

British manufacturing investment in sub-Saharan Africa: corporate responses during structural adjustment.
December 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION This article presents and analyses the results of a recently completed survey that shows widespread disinvestment among UK manufacturing companies with subsidiaries and associate companies in anglophone Africa during the period...

Labour market discrimination against indigenous people in Peru.
December 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION In recent years, the connection between ethnicity and economic inequality in developing economies has gained considerable attention. Yet while researchers have examined the experiences of ethnic groups, especially in developed...

The impact of formal finance on the rural economy of India.
December 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Expanding the availability of agricultural credit has been widely used in developing countries as a policy to accelerate agricultural and rural development. In many countries credit and the credit institutions were heavily...

Group credit: a means to improve information transfer and loan repayment performance.
December 1, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION Delivering productive credit to the rural poor has been a hotly pursued but problem-plagued undertaking. Providing low-cost, efficient, credit services and recovering a high percentage of loans granted are the ideal aims in...

A History of Mozambique.
December 1, 1995... At first sight this book may not seem relevant to development theory as it is an extremely detailed, comprehensive history of one particular country, but such a judgement would be a mistake. This excellent book should be widely read, both inside...

Tanzania: The Limits to Development from Above.
December 1, 1995... Kjell J. Havnevik presents the results of his long-term assessment of Tanzanian economic and political development in Tanzania - The Limits of Development from Above. It is a very ambitious book in which different issues are analysed to...

The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself.
December 1, 1995... Colombia has in recent years acquired a formidable reputation for drug-trafficking, political and criminal violence, and endemic corruption. The dire images projected by the international media have not, however, generally been supported by close...

Utopia Unarmed - The Latin American Left After the Cold War.
December 1, 1995... The recent history and political significance of the Latin American left has been in a state of turmoil. On the one hand, events outside the Latin American continent have been widely interpreted as signifying the intellectual bankruptcy of...