Journal of Development Studies articles from December 1997

Journal of Development Studies archives from December 1997

Trade, technology and labour markets in the world economy, 1970-90: a computable general equilibrium analysis.
December 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION: EMERGING MARKETS - NORTH-SOUTH CONFLICT OR FREE TRADE BENEFICENCE? What are the consequences of emerging markets; for themselves, the world economy and the OECD? That is this study's theme. In politics and in economic journals...

Poverty and prosperity among migrant settlers in the Amazon rainforest frontier of Ecuador.
December 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION This study deals with the material circumstances of farm households which have migrated to the tropical rainforest frontier of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The topic is intimately related to an environmental concern which has garnered...

Food energy intake and cost of basic needs: measuring poverty in Bangladesh.
December 1, 1997... Two main methods have been used to compute poverty lines in developing countries: the food energy intake and the cost of basic needs methods. Both methods are anchored in a daily nutritional requirement, but they differ in the procedure used to...

Gender wage inequality and export-led growth in South Korea.
December 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION South Korea's economic growth experience over the last three decades has generated a flurry of research activity to uncover the causes of that country's stellar performance. Standard macroeconomic indicators for Korea are...

An analysis of declining incidence of regular labour contracts in rural India.
December 1, 1997... Evidence obtained from the ICRISAT villages in India suggests that the decline of regular contracts has been accompanied by the growth in real wages and casualisation of the rural labour force. In view of this evidence, the article examines the...

Inflation, unemployment and distributional conflict in Argentina, 1984-90.
December 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION The decade of the 1980s was a period of extreme economic instability for many countries in Latin America and for none more so than Argentina. The decade began with an annual inflation rate of over 100 per cent combined with...

World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World.
December 1, 1997... The latest Word Development Report will leave no one in any doubt that the dominance of the neo-classical economic paradigm in development studies is over. 'State-dominated development has failed', says the report (p.25), 'but so will stateless...

Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal.
December 1, 1997... Africa boasts the doubtful record of zero GDP per capita growth over the past three decades and negative rates if only the two last decades are taken into account. This sad fact constitutes the point of departure for a welcome addition to the...

Limits of Adjustment in Africa.
December 1, 1997... Africa's 'adjustment' experience began in the early 1980s, when the majority of countries approached the IMF and the World Bank for loans, which were given only if the countries adopted a package of 'adjustment policies'. The IMF had, of course,...

Economic Reform and the Poor in Africa.
December 1, 1997... The subject of the impact of African economic reform on the poor has attracted much posturing but little serious analysis. This collection of studies is commendably free of the language of advocacy: there is no 'human face' discourse. Instead,...

The Individual and the State in China.
December 1, 1997... The Individual and the State in China consists largely of articles originally published in China Quarterly, Vol. 127, September 1991 - the last number of that journal edited by Brian Hook. It contains a new introduction by Hook and a conclusion...

In Search of Civil Society: Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China.
December 1, 1997... The Individual and the State in China consists largely of articles originally published in China Quarterly, Vol. 127, September 1991 - the last number of that journal edited by Brian Hook. It contains a new introduction by Hook and a conclusion...

Institutional Development: A Third World City Management Perspective.
December 1, 1997... Institutional development and urban management are topics at the top of the political and development agendas of almost all international agencies and many developing country governments. The writing of a book which combines these two themes is...

Good Government in the Tropics.
December 1, 1997... Those who have been waiting for Judith Tendler's book, stimulated by the 'previews' which appeared over the past three years, have been well rewarded. Bringing together the case studies of good government in the state of Ceara in North East...

Emancipating the Banking System and Developing Markets for Government Debt.
December 1, 1997... In preparation for the 1996 Central Bank Governor's Symposium hosted by the Bank of England, Maxwell Fry was asked by the Governor of the Bank, Eddie George, to address the question 'How should a government best meet its borrowing requirements?',...

Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy Along the Amazon.
December 1, 1997... This is a clearly written, informative and extremely well illustrated introduction to the floodplains of the Amazon (the varzeas). It is written by three of the foremost authorities on the region, all of whom bring a different expertise to the...

Non-Governmental Organizations and Health in Developing Countries.
December 1, 1997... A voluminous literature on NGOs and development has emerged over the past nine years or so. This book will find a niche within this literature with its focus on the role of NGOs within a specific sector (health), although its heavy reliance on...

The Demography of Famines: An Indian Historical Perspective.
December 1, 1997... Famine demography is often bedevilled by the lack of reliable data. True, in England and in France reputable estimates of the aggregate number of births, deaths, and marriages reach back far enough to make it possible to generate plausible...

Peace Without Profit: How the IMF Blocks Rebuilding in Mozambique.
December 1, 1997... This is Joe Hanlon's third book on Mozambique. In each of the first two he explored a key issue in the political economy of Mozambique so concisely and cogently that the wider implications of the case captured the attention of development...

Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa.
December 1, 1997... The author tells us that his friends and publisher have informed him that the text under review is a 'long book', but that he thinks it is too short! Fred Cooper has never been without ambition, and his justification for his 472 pages of text and...

Public-Sector Pay and Adjustment: Lessons from Five Countries.
December 1, 1997... The five country studies published here are part of the work undertaken by the ILO Interdepartmental Project on Structural Adjustment and are a welcome addition to the ILO work on public sector pay. The first two, a study of Singapore by David...

The Economics of Agriculture, vol. 1: Selected Papers of D. Gale Johnson.
December 1, 1997... D. Gale Johnson, with the Nobel Prizewinner Theodore Schultz, his mentor and later his colleague, was a stalwart member of the University of Chicago economics department from 1944 until 1988 who has happily continued his prolific work, including...