Journal of Development Studies articles from February 1998

Journal of Development Studies archives from February 1998

Subsidising inequality: economic reforms, fiscal transfers and convergence across Chinese provinces.
February 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION In a vast country such as China, the regional impact of economic reforms naturally commands high policy interest. As regions may differ according to initial conditions such as economic structure, resource endowments, and level...

Banking reform and the financing of firm investment: an empirical analysis of the Chilean experience, 1983-92.
February 1, 1998... In recent years, a large body of empirical literature has investigated the impact of information problems in financial markets on investment decisions of firms in developed countries [Fazzari, Hubbard and Petersen, 1988; Devereux and...

How to lend like mad and make a profit: a micro-credit paradigm versus the start-up fund in South Africa.
February 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION Micro-credit is now an accepted development policy tool and attracts attention and funding at record levels. Donors, development officials and researchers discuss the problems of uncollateralised lending - primarily exposure to...

Evidence on substitutability of adult and child labour.
February 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Child labour faces much international opposition. Substantial market activity by children has been perceived for most of this century as destructive to an individual's intellectual and physical development and to society at large...

The business of aid: transparency and accountability in European Union development assistance.
February 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION The European Union (EU) has emerged as one of the most important providers of foreign aid to the developing world, yet relatively little is known about how decisions are made about the way that aid is spent.(1) The European...

Factor markets and resource allocation in colonial Punjab. (India)
February 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION The slow growth and low productivity of Indian agriculture during its colonial period have been the subject of much discussion.(1) Various explanations, not mutually exclusive, have been advanced: poor technology, excessive...

Earnings and ethnicity in Trinidad and Tobago.
February 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION Analyses of earnings differences among individuals of different ethnic groupings in developing countries are relatively sparse in the labour economics literature.(1) Such a gap is particularly noticeable in the case of...

Community Development Around the World: Practice, Theory, Research and Training.
February 1, 1998... This is a useful and timely book. It captures the attention at a time when, in spite of different histories, many countries around the World are refocusing public policy in ways that put some reliance upon the concept of 'community'. The...

Cultural Perspectives on Development.
February 1, 1998... The seven essays that make up Cultural Perspectives on Development (which were earlier published as an issue of the European Journal of Development Research) cover a diverse range of topics, but they are all concerned with the need for a...

Questioning Development: Essays in the Theory, Policies and Practice of Development Interventions.
February 1, 1998... This is a collection of 18 papers that were originally presented at a conference convened in 1995 by the German Association for Political Economy (GAPE). The 23 contributors are from Germany, The Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland and, although...

Development Economics: From the Poverty to the Wealth of Nations.
February 1, 1998... The three books reviewed here are worthy additions to the rather long list of Development Economics texts - although Hayami's book is intended to be a 'cohesive treatise on development' it is also 'to be usable as a text' hence we review it with...

Development Economics.
February 1, 1998... The three books reviewed here are worthy additions to the rather long list of Development Economics texts - although Hayami's book is intended to be a 'cohesive treatise on development' it is also 'to be usable as a text' hence we review it with...

The Process of Economic Development.
February 1, 1998... The three books reviewed here are worthy additions to the rather long list of Development Economics texts - although Hayami's book is intended to be a 'cohesive treatise on development' it is also 'to be usable as a text' hence we review it with...

The Diploma Disease: Education, Qualification and Development.
February 1, 1998... In the slightly more than 20 years since its initial publication, Ron Dore's The Diploma Disease has become one of those volumes which justifiably is called 'a classic'. Given its widespread use on international education and development courses...

Special Issue: The Diploma Disease Twenty Years On.
February 1, 1998... In the slightly more than 20 years since its initial publication, Ron Dore's The Diploma Disease has become one of those volumes which justifiably is called 'a classic'. Given its widespread use on international education and development courses...

The Environment and Emerging Development Issues.
February 1, 1998... These two volumes represent the first stage of a project sponsored by the United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) to provide in-depth teaching material on environmental and ecological economics...

The Economic Organization of East Asian Capitalism.
February 1, 1998... Marxists used to research the development of capitalism. Despite doctrinal differences, they had a coherent general notion of what that phrase meant. The expansion of material prosperity was not to be understood as a natural, technical or...

Power in Motion: Capital Mobility and the Indonesian State.
February 1, 1998... Marxists used to research the development of capitalism. Despite doctrinal differences, they had a coherent general notion of what that phrase meant. The expansion of material prosperity was not to be understood as a natural, technical or...

Environmental Change in South East Asia: People, Politics, and Sustainable Development.
February 1, 1998... This edited volume argues that sustainable development can only be determined for crucial environmental areas such as South East Asia by understanding the political conflicts and cultural context of conflicts over resources. It makes this...

Big Men, Small Boys and Politics in Ghana: Power, Ideology and the Burden of History, 1982-94.
February 1, 1998... This is a meticulously researched account of contemporary Ghanaian politics. Paul Nugent uses both local idioms and apposite slogans to situate his tale of a revolution - effectively by 'small boys' - made legitimate in spite of its own...

Rural Industrialization in Indonesia: A Case Study of Community-Based Weaving Industry in West Java.
February 1, 1998... The countryside has tended to be left behind in South-East Asia's push for economic growth, based as it has been largely on the privileging of urban-centred, large-scale, export-oriented industrialisation. Whilst some crumbs have undeniably...

Missing a Moving Target? Colonist Technology Development on the Amazon Frontier.
February 1, 1998... This ODI research study forms part of the output of a research programme examining the institutional aspects of natural resource management and concentrates on socioeconomic aspects of frontier expansion in Amazonia. Much interest has been...

Societies and Nature in the Sahel.
February 1, 1998... There has never been a greater need for knowledge about the evolution of societies and environment over time in the Sahel. The area has been the subject of periodic surges of research interest notably in the 1970s in the aftermath of the 1972-74...

Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania.
February 1, 1998... Based on a 1990 doctoral thesis much of which has been published elsewhere, Tripps' central thesis concerns what she sees as the catalytic role of the urban informal sector (via non-compliance by the poor and the 'weak') in the Tanzanian economic...