Journal of Development Studies articles from December 1999

Journal of Development Studies archives from December 1999

Livelihoods and Poverty: The Role of Migration -- A Critical Review of the Migration Literature.
December 1, 1999... This review of the literature concludes that development studies have paid insufficient attention to labour migration, and makes a plea to integrate analyses of migration within those of agricultural and rural development. It emphasises that...

Law and Order as a Development Issue: Land Conflicts and the Creation of Social Order in Southern Malawi.
December 1, 1999... Registration of individual title to land in order to create legal security has been the central concern in the rich literature on land and law in Africa. The problem of legal insecurity is approached here from a different angle which has...

Minority Entrepreneurs and Firm Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa.
December 1, 1999... This study focuses on the role of entrepreneurs in the private sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) and controlling for various factors, our analysis compares growth rates of...

An Analysis of Offer Functions of Banks and Credit Unions in Guatemala.
December 1, 1999... Economists have sought to identify institutions which might fill the gap in household access to credit arising from rationing by formal lenders. Credit unions have been identified as institutions which might use informational and monitoring...

Refining the Use of Monte Carlo Techniques for Risk Analysis in Project Planning.
December 1, 1999... Monte Carlo approaches to risk analysis in project appraisal are re-examined. Limitations with conventional methods are identified, and refinements suggested that deal with increasing uncertainty about variables throughout the project life,...

Foodgrain Price Stabilisation in an Open Economy: A CGE Analysis of Variable Trade Levies for India.
December 1, 1999... Within the present multilateral trading system, the developing countries are obliged to gradually open up their agricultural sector to world markets. As a result of this, the effectiveness of conventional instruments of food price stabilisation...