Journal of Development Studies articles from February 2001

Journal of Development Studies archives from February 2001

Comparing Village Characteristics Derived from Rapid Appraisals and Household Surveys: A Tale from Northern Mali.
February 1, 2001... This article investigates whether inferences drawn about a population are sensitive to the manner by which those data are obtained. It compares information obtained using participatory app appraisal techniques with a survey of households...

International Currency Taxation and Currency Stabilisation in Developing Countries.
February 1, 2001... Completely flexible exchange rates may be 'excessively' volatile, with the implied currency misalignments leading to real inefficiencies in resource allocation and detrimental effects on economic growth. This article analyses whether...

The 'Good Wife': Struggles over Resources in the Kenyan Horticultural Sector.
February 1, 2001... This article examines how the contracting of French beans has engendered conflict over rights, obligations and resources in Meru District, Kenya. In response to pressure for agricultural diversification and the expanding European market for...

Economic Fluctuations and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Importance of Import Instability.
February 1, 2001... The traditional thesis that export instability (XI) is deleterious to economic growth in developing economies has received mixed empirical results. For African countries, recent research suggests that the effect of XI is weak, but that capital...

What Difference Do Polarisation Measures Make? An Application to China.
February 1, 2001... In recent years there has been much discussion of the difference between inequality and polarisation. The vast literature on inequality is held to miss out key features of distributional change, which are better described as changes in...

Rangeland Degradation in North China Revisited? A Preliminary Statistical Analysis to Validate Non-Equilibrium Range Ecology.
February 1, 2001... Over the past decades, the concepts of carrying capacity and Clementsian vegetation succession have come under attack from the theory of Non-Equilibrium Range Ecology. The new theory hypothesises that in arid regions with high rainfall...

Sustainable Development: Concepts and Rankings.
February 1, 2001... One way of thinking about development -- endorsed by the UNDP and the Brundtland Commission - involves improvements in the quality of life which are equitable. This conception invokes two values -- equity and well-being -- which can conflict....

Social Security for the Excluded Majority: Case Studies of Developing Countries.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Social Security for the Excluded Majority: Case Studies of Developing Countries. Edited by Wouter van Ginneken. Geneva: ILO, 1999. Pp. xviii + 198. [pound]11.95. ISBN 922 1108562 This International Labour Office publication opens with the...

Taiwan's Development Experience: Lessons on the Roles of Government and Market.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Taiwan's Development Experience: Lessons on the Roles of Government and Market. By Erik Thorbecke and Henry Wan. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. Pp.x + 454. [pound]97.50. ISBN 0 79 2385 136 This is a book of special value...

The Political Economy of Water Pricing Reforms.(Review)
February 1, 2001... The Political Economy of Water Pricing Reforms. Edited by Ariel Dinar. New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 2000. Pp.x + 405. [pound]38. ISBN 0 19521594 X In many countries urbanisation, rising living standards and...

Risks and Reconstruction: Experiences of Resettlers and Refugees.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Risks and Reconstruction: Experiences of Resettlers and Refugees. Edited by Michael M. Cernea and Christopher McDowell. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2000. Pp.xvi + 487. $25. ISBN 0 8213 4444 7 Risks and Reconstruction is a...

On the Move: Mobility, Land Use and Livelihood Practices on the Central Plateau in Burkina Faso.(Review)
February 1, 2001... On the Move: Mobility, Land Use and Livelihood Practices on the Central Plateau in Burkina Faso. By Mark Breusers. Munster: LIT Verlag, 2000. Pp.xv + 423. DM 79.80. ISBN 3 8258 3941 9 This book is about the livelihood practices of two...

Urban Poverty in Africa: From Understanding to Alleviation.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Urban Poverty in Africa: From Understanding to Alleviation. Edited by Sue Jones and Nici Nelson. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1999. Pp.xiv + 193. [pound]15.95. ISBN 1 85339 474 2 Time was, for a while at least, when no one...

Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Edited by Deborah Bryceson, Cristobal Kay and Jos Mooij. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 2000. Pp.x + 333. [pound]20. ISBN 1 85339 477 7 This is above...

Development Under Adversity: The Palestinian Economy in Transition.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Development Under Adversity: The Palestinian Economy in Transition. By Ishac Diwan and Radwan A. Shaban. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1999. Pp.xvi + 240. ISBN 0 8213 4418 8 With the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, it was hoped that...

EU 'Global Player': The North-South Policy of the European Union.(Review)
February 1, 2001... EU 'Global Player': The North-South Policy of the European Union. By Mirjam van Reisen. Utrecht: International Books, 1999. Pp. 252. [pound]20. ISBN 90 5727 035 8 This study of EU policy towards developing countries was sponsored by a...