Journal of Development Studies articles from December 2002

Journal of Development Studies archives from December 2002

Credit programmes for the poor and seasonality in rural Bangladesh.
December 1, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION This article examines the effect of group-based credit for the poor in Bangladesh on the seasonal pattern of household consumption and male and female labour supply. Like much of South Asia, Bangladesh has a marked seasonal...

An exploratory analysis of fertility differentials in India.
December 1, 2002... I. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FERTILITY Economists and demographers generally acknowledge that economic factors may play a significant role in determining human fertility. Gary Becker has been one of the chief proponents of the view that...

Programmed to fail? Development projects and the politics of participation.
December 1, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION It used to be said, with some justification, that development projects failed to attend to local voices and embodied a top-down planning philosophy that engaged citizens as clients or even as servants. (1) This charge is...

Participatory development in the presence of endogenous community imperfections.
December 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Since the last decades have been characterised by a strong disillusionment with the performances of the state, especially in countries of sub-Saharan Africa, and since market imperfections are a pervasive feature of the rural...

The trade-induced learning effect on growth: cross-country evidence.
December 1, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION After the Second World War, some of the developing countries have experienced miraculous economic growth. The so-called Newly Industrialising Economies (NIEs) such as Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore have...

Measuring embodied technological change in Indonesian textiles: The core-machinery approach.
December 1, 2002... I. MEASUREMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE Recent studies stress the importance of technological catch-up in the development process of the newly industrialising economies. They emphasise the crucial role played by governments in providing an...