Journal of Development Studies articles from January 1 1991

Journal of Development Studies archives from January 1 1991

Investment spending and interest rate policy: the case of financial liberalisation in Turkey.
January 1, 1991... The purpose of the present study is to analyse the impact of interest rate policy on investment spending in Turkey over a period which covers years of both financial repression and financial liberalisation. The model presented suggests that...

North-south trade and female labour in manufacturing: an asymmetry.
January 1, 1991... A simple method of measuring the impact of North-South trade on the female intensity of manufacturing is applied to data for developed and developing countries. The results confirm that growth of exports has increased the relative demand for...

The economic viability and stability of 'capitalised family farming': an analysis of agricultural decollectivisation in Peru.
January 1, 1991... Agricultural decollectivisation in Peru created a nascent |Capitalist Family Farm' sector. Does the empirical fact of parcellisation suggest that small-scale agriculture is optimal? Will land reconcentration occur with differentiation among the...

The inflation-devaluation-inflation hypothesis in Nicaragua.
January 1, 1991... This article employs a computable general equilibrium model for Sandinista Nicaragua to argue that a foreign exchange constrained economy does not necessarily fall prey to the inflation-devaluation-inflation vicious cycle characteristic of more...

Landholdings, living standards, and labour supply functions: evidence from a poor agrarian economy.
January 1, 1991... Recent empirical studies of labour supply in LDC agriculture show both positive- and negative-sloping curves, contrary to the traditional claims that such functions are backward-bending. In this study, the causes for these differing results are...

Human Rights and Development: International Views.
January 1, 1991... The notion of human rights often travels in a cloak of mythology that is difficult to break through. For those who invoke human rights - including moralists, policymakers, and activists-the concept is often relied upon as an impeccable and...

The Threatening Desert.
January 1, 1991... These two publications are part of a burgeoning literature on environmental issues that may soon overwhelm readers. Despite their apparently different orientations they have important elements in common, both seeking to provide clarification in...

Ecology and Politics.
January 1, 1991... These publications are part of burgeoning literature on environmental issues that may soon overwhelm readers. Despite their apparently different orientations they have important elements in common, both seeking to provide clarification in the...

The Purpose of Forests.
January 1, 1991... Jack Westoby, who died in 1988, was among the first truly international forest economists, and it is fitting that his life's work should be celebrated by two books of global scope. Westoby was an early proponent of the view that |trees are for...

Introduction to World Forestry.
January 1, 1991... Jack Westoby, who died in 1988, was among the first truly international forest economists, and it is fitting that his life's work should be celebrated by two books of global scope. Westoby was an early proponent of the review that |trees are...

The Technological Behaviour of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries.
January 1, 1991... It is a commonly held view that in many developing countries the contribution of industrialisation to broadly-based economic and social development has been inadequate. It is, further, the normal extension of this viewpoint to suggest that it...

Multinational Enterprises and National Policies.
January 1, 1991... This volume publishes ten papers given at the 4th symposium on Multinational Corporations of the Center for the Coordination of Research of the International Federation of Catholic Universities, held at Porto Alegre (Brasil) in 1987. The broad...

The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Inter-War Depression.
January 1, 1991... Because Development Studies is a comparatively young subject area, its intellectual foundations and formative period are not far removed from today's practitioners. Indeed, as is partly captured in the Pioneers in Development volumes, many of...