Journal of Development Studies articles from December 1998

Journal of Development Studies archives from December 1998

Structural Adjustment Reconsidered: Economic Policy and Poverty in Africa.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By David Sahn, Paul Dorosh and Stephen Younger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. vix+304. ISBN 0521 584515 Nearly 20 years after the advent of World Bank and IMF-supported adjustment policies, controversy continues as to the...

Who Changes? Institutionalizing Participation in Development.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by James Blackburn with Jeremy Holland. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1998. Pp.xvi + 199. [pounds]5.25. ISBN 1853394203 I find Robert Chambers' work on participatory research and development somewhat frustrating....

Whose Voice? Participatory Research and Policy Change.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Jeremy Holland with James Blackburn. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1998. Pp.xviii + 254. [pounds]5.75. ISBN 185339419X I find Robert Chambers' work on participatory research and development somewhat frustrating....

Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Sheila Carapico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xiv + 256. [pounds]35. ISBN 0 521 59098 1 Yemen is often regarded as a backward semi-feudal economy, with authoritarian political and social structures and a culture...

The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Frederique Apffel-Marglin with PRATEC. London and New York; Zed Books, 1997. ISBN 1 85649 547 7 and 548 5 This book assembles for the first time in English a selection from the work of PRATEC (Proyecto Andino de Tecnologias...

Development Strategy and Management of the Market Economy: Vol. 1.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Edmond Malinvaud and others. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp.xiii + 302. [pounds]25. ISBN 0 19 8292120 These two volumes constitute a timely survey of the new consensus in development economic analysis and policy. The articles in them...

Poverty: A Persistent Global Reality.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by John Dixon and David Macarow. London: Routledge (Series Social Policy/Development), 1998. Pp.xvi + 287. ISBN 0 415 14681 X and 14682 8 Comparative studies on poverty are very welcome. Knowledge of poverty has increased...

Civil Service Reform and Structural Adjustment.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By S.K. Das. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.xv + 267. Rs550. ISBN 0 19 564305 4 This book may be expected to serve two useful purposes: one as a brief guide to civil service reforms in five countries and the other as a guide to...

Malaysia's Political Economy: Politics, Patronage and Profits.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Edmund Terence Gomez and Jomo K.S. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xix + 207. [pounds]40 and [pounds]14.95. ISBN 0 521 59996 2 and 59007 8 Many authors of books on Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea written...

Economic and Social Progress in Asia: Why Pakistan Did Not Become a Tiger.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Omar Noman. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997. [pounds]14.99. ISBN 0 19 5777816 On the eve of independence the Quaid e Azam held out a glorious vision for Pakistan's future, a vision of a prosperous and tolerant people, a...

The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Anne Booth. London: Macmillan (Modern Economic History of Southeast Asia series), 1998. Pp.xvi + 377. [Phi]50 and [pounds]19.95. ISBN 0333 553098 and 553101 Anne Booth's volume is the first really comprehensive and integrated economic...

The new growth theory and development economics: a survey.
December 1, 1998... Both growth economics and development economics emerged as distinct fields of inquiry in the early post-Second World War period. Growth economics emerged out of a concern with the preservation of full employment in modem capitalist economies....

Japanese aid to Africa: patterns, motivation and the role of structural adjustment.
December 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION The most predominant policy framework of the past two decades has been structural adjustment which has been imposed on developing country governments by multilateral agencies throughout the world. Adjustment measures have...

Family background, gender and schooling in Mexico.
December 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION The private and social benefits of schooling in developing and industrialised economies are widely recognised. Schooling has been convincingly linked to higher earnings, better health and nutrition, greater labour...

Gender and rural livelihoods in Kenya.
December 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION This article brings together two concerns. One is prompted by the upheavals of economic change experienced in the African countryside in recent years and their impact on rural people's efforts to maintain their livelihoods....

Income and em,ployment effects of micro-credit programmes: village-level evidence from Bangladesh.
December 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION Micro-credit programmes are increasingly sought as a way to enhance the income and employment of the poor who can be self-employed in a variety of informal activities [Hulme and Mosley, 1996; Yunus, 1983; World Bank, 1994]....

Migrants' intentions to return home and capital transfers: a study of Tongans and Samoans in Australia.
December 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Migrants' commitment to their country of origin is of considerable importance to the migrant, relatives and friends at home, and also to those concerned with planning and policy making in the home country and the country of...

Farm-to-market transaction costs and specialisation in small-scale agriculture: explorations with a non-separable household model.
December 1, 1998... Incomplete or missing markets for key goods and services like labour [Fafchamps, 1993], food [de Janvry et al., 1991; Omamo, 1998], credit [Eswaran and Kotwal, 1986; Rosenzweig and Wolpin, 1993], and insurance [Bromley and Chavas, 1989] can...