Journal of Development Studies articles from February 1996

Journal of Development Studies archives from February 1996

Community, collective action and common grazing: the case of post-socialist Mongolia.
February 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION The sustainable and productive management of natural resources under conditions of relative scarcity depends critically on various forms of coordination between individuals and groups within society. Sets of socially devised rules...

What happens to industrial structure when countries liberalise? Indonesia since the mid-1980s.
February 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION There is now a very large literature assessing the impact of liberalisation of international trade, finance, regulations and licensing, and ownership requirements - on economic performance.' The main conclusions of this...

Regional inequalities, economic growth and liberalisation: a study of the Indian economy.
February 1, 1996... I.INTRODUCTION Poverty in India has been the most intensely researched subject over the last three decades. Although the estimation of poverty as an absolute measure of economic inequality is still a controversial issue, recent studies(1) have...

Equilibrium interest rates and financial liberalisation in developing countries.
February 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION The path-breaking work of McKinnon [1973] and Shaw [1973] provided the first clear theoretical basis for arguments in favour of the liberalisation of financial markets as an essential step in the development process. The essence...

Productivity performance and priorities for the reform of China's state-owned enterprises.
February 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION - THE ROLE OF THE STATE-OWNED SECTOR By comparison with transition economies in Eastern and Central Europe, China appears to be making a successful transition from central planning to greater market orientation. It has largely...

Identifying the sources of growth in Taiwan's manufacturing industry.
February 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION An externality mechanism plays an important role in most endogenous growth models (for example, demand spillover [Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny, 1989]; knowledge spillover [Romer, 1986; 1990; Lucas, 1988; Grossman and Helpman,...